Danny White and Nate Stanley

MelroseHawkins

MelroseHawkins

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The kid could punt! Who knew?

Stanley's Bio on Iowa's official athletics website team roster page

Career -- Four-year letterman as quarterback, defensive back, and punter . . . missed majority of junior season because of injury . . . helped prep team win 24 games in three seasons and advance to state playoffs four straight years . . . passed for 1,728 yards and 16 touchdowns as a senior with four interceptions . . . rushed 44 times for 213 yards and three touchdowns, while averaging 44.9 yards per punt . . . passed for 670 yards and six touchdowns before being injured as a junior, while rushing for 95 yards and one touchdown . . . as a sophomore threw for 1,276 yards and 14 touchdowns, while rushing for 60 yards and one touchdown… also averaged 45.6 yards per punt . . . punted for varsity squad as a freshman, averaging 44 yards per punt



Some of you may have never heard or known of Danny White. Danny White was both the QB and punter for the Dallas Cowboys in the mid 1970's to mid 1980's. A rarity to have the QB play both positions or any player for that matter. I remember as a child watching him and even I understood it was a unique situation. Teams would have to be careful on 4th downs because of a potential fake with the QB back there punting.

I was reading Stanley's bio and noticed he had a terrific punting average around 45 yrds a punt. Boy, have to wonder if Iowa could have ever gone the Danny White route with Stanley?? Would have been interesting and made punts interesting with a possible fake!

A side note: Danny White only averaged 40.2 yrds per punt in his NFL career.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
The kid could punt! Who knew?

Stanley's Bio on Iowa's official athletics website team roster page

Career -- Four-year letterman as quarterback, defensive back, and punter . . . missed majority of junior season because of injury . . . helped prep team win 24 games in three seasons and advance to state playoffs four straight years . . . passed for 1,728 yards and 16 touchdowns as a senior with four interceptions . . . rushed 44 times for 213 yards and three touchdowns, while averaging 44.9 yards per punt . . . passed for 670 yards and six touchdowns before being injured as a junior, while rushing for 95 yards and one touchdown . . . as a sophomore threw for 1,276 yards and 14 touchdowns, while rushing for 60 yards and one touchdown… also averaged 45.6 yards per punt . . . punted for varsity squad as a freshman, averaging 44 yards per punt



Some of you may have never heard or known of Danny White. Danny White was both the QB and punter for the Dallas Cowboys in the mid 1970's to mid 1980's. A rarity to have the QB play both positions or any player for that matter. I remember as a child watching him and even I understood it was a unique situation. Teams would have to be careful on 4th downs because of a potential fake with the QB back there punting.

I was reading Stanley's bio and noticed he had a terrific punting average around 45 yrds a punt. Boy, have to wonder if Iowa could have ever gone the Danny White route with Stanley?? Would have been interesting and made punts interesting with a possible fake!

A side note: Danny White only averaged 40.2 yrds per punt in his NFL career.
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Once White became the starting QB, he ceased to be the punter.
 
tksirius said:
Seems like a no brainer. Silly Kirk.
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Yea, I'm sure he could have learned situational kicking as well. Too much time mastering the QB position I guess.

Both Iowa's current punters only averaged around 40 yrd per punt. I just can't believe Stanley averaged around 45 give or take, depending on year.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
Yea, I'm sure he could have learned situational kicking as well. Too much time mastering the QB position I guess.

Both Iowa's current punters only averaged around 40 yrd per punt. I just can't believe Stanley averaged around 45 give or take, depending on year.
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If our punting doesn't get some improvement, it WILL hurt us at some point.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
Once White became the starting QB, he ceased to be the punter.
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You sure about that? It seems I vividly remember him driving the offense then when it stalled would line up to punt. I then remember announcers commenting on possible fakes. Maybe this was the transition time, I was pretty young.
 
Randall Cunningham punted the first two games of the season for the 1997 Vikings when Mitch Berger was hurt. He was starting QB and punter at UNLV, but that was 13 years earlier so pretty impressive he was still proficient at it enough for the NFL to not bother signing a punter to fill in.
 
HawkGold said:
Remember Wienke?
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Yup, and it blew my mind that Iowa never faked it once when Wienke was the pooch punter in 2012 after being a QBin previous seasons. Of course, times have changed since and Iowa goes for it quite a bit on 4th down now.
 
There were things here and there with the offense and defense that weren't good, but are completely fixable and would expect them to be fixed.

However, our punting game just looks atrocious right now. I don't think a single punt traveled farther than 30 yards in the air. Everything came off of Rasteter's foot pretty weakly....there was no explosion at all. I don't think that's something that can be fixed in a season. Unfortunately, it's probably going to cost us a game or 2 this year...
 
99topdawg said:
Tom Tupa was also a QB/punter for OSU. Also scored the first 2 point conversion in NFL history. (No, I have nothing to do at work.)
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I thought it was the first two point conversion in the modern era bince they had two point conversions a long time ago and then did away with them but brought them back.

Anyway, as for this thread, Danny White was the man. Let's not go around comparing young QBs to a legend. At least not yet.
 
Hawkalum2002 said:
Randall Cunningham punted the first two games of the season for the 1997 Vikings when Mitch Berger was hurt. He was starting QB and punter at UNLV, but that was 13 years earlier so pretty impressive he was still proficient at it enough for the NFL to not bother signing a punter to fill in.
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Oh yea. Forgot about him. Maybe there were more than I thought that did it.
 
guffus said:
Yup, and it blew my mind that Iowa never faked it once when Wienke was the pooch punter in 2012 after being a QBin previous seasons. Of course, times have changed since and Iowa goes for it quite a bit on 4th down now.
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Wienke actually had a good arm. Coming from a very small school he never was able to adapt to speed.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
From Wiki.

In 1976, he signed with the Dallas Cowboys after the World Football League folded. Through 1979, White was the Cowboys' punter and the backup to the team's star quarterback Roger Staubach. After Staubach's retirement following the end of that season, White became the Cowboys' starting quarterback, and for a few years did double-duty as the punter until sometime in 1984.
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Yes Hawkins is correct as I watched a lot of Cowboys games back then and the White did both. I hate to have to back up Hawkins though for some of his crappy replies to people.
 
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