Charlie Gogolak

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The native form of this personal name is Gogolák Károly Pál. This article uses the Western name order.

Charlie Gogolak
Career information
Date of birth:	(1944-12-29) December 29, 1944
Place of birth:	Rábahídvég, Hungary
Position(s):	Placekicker
College:	Princeton
AFL Draft:	1966 / Round: 7 / Pick: 56 (by the Kansas City Chiefs)
NFL Draft:	1966 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6
Organizations
As player:
1966-1968 1970-1972	Washington Redskins Boston/New England Patriots
Career stats
Playing stats at NFL.com

Charles Paul Gogolak (in Hungarian: Gogolák Károly Pál, born December 29, 1944 in Rábahídvég, Hungary) is a retired American football placekicker.

Gogolak was signed out of Princeton University by the Washington Redskins in the 1966 NFL Draft, marking the first time that a placekicker was selected in the first round. He played for the Redskins, as well as the New England Patriots. Gogolak was one of the first "soccer style" placekickers in the NFL along with his brother Pete. The brothers combined to score 14 extra points in a single game,^[1] tied for the most ever,^[2] in a 72-41 win for Charlie's Redskins.

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Notes and references

v t e Boston / Washington Redskins first-round draft picks

R. Smith Baugh Farkas Hale Boell Evashevski Sanders Jenkins Micka Hardy Rossi Gilmer Tew Goode G. Thomas Heath Isbell Scarbath Meilinger Guglielmi Vereb Bosseler Allard Lucas Snead Rutgens E. Davis Richter C. Taylor Gogolak R. McDonald J. Smith Monk May D. Green B. Wilson D. Howard T. Carter Shuler Westbrook A. Johnson Lang Bailey Arrington Samuels Gardner Ramsey S. Taylor C. Rogers Campbell Landry Orakpo Williams Kerrigan Griffin III

AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC OAK SD NFC East DAL NYG PHI WAS North CHI DET GB MIN South ATL CAR NO TB West ARI STL SF SEA

v t e Washington Redskins 1966 NFL Draft selections

Charlie Gogolak Walter Barnes Tom Barrington Billy Clay Dick Lemay Earl Yates George Patton Stan Mitchell Jack Shinholser Caesar Belser Dick Reding John Stipech Heath Wingate Jerry Lovelace Hal Seymour Hal Wantland Mitch Zalnasky Joe Burson Andre White John Kelly

Draft Years 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1950 AAFC 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Persondata
Name	Gogolak, Charlie
Alternative names
Short description	American football player
Date of birth	December 29, 1944
Place of birth	Rábahídvég, Hungary
Date of death
Place of death

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