Wildcat All-Americans
Jan 24, 2005 | General
MARTIN GRAMATICA
Place Kicker
5-9, 170, 4L
Buenos Aires , Argentina (LaBelle [Fla.] HS)
1998 (senior): Walter Camp All-American... AFCA All-American... Second-team all-America by the Associated Press ... Set NCAA record for scoring by a kicker in a season with 135 points... Runner up for Lou Groza Place-Kicker Award... Finalist for Mosi Tatupu Special Teams Award... Blasted a 65-yard field goal against Northern Illinois for the fourth-longest field goal in NCAA history, and the longest in NCAA history without the use of a tee... The 65-yarder set a Kansas State and Big 12 record and earned him Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week honors... Started the season with a 55-yard field goal against Indiana State ... Set a school record with nine extra points against Indiana State ... Set a school record with 18 kicking points vs. Kansas ... Set a school record for field goals in a game with four against Kansas and vs. Texas A&M... K-State's career scoring leader with 349 points... Earned Big 12 Special Teams Player-of-the-Week honors after kicking three field goals in 16-9 win at Colorado .
1997 (junior): Winner of the 1997 Lou Groza Collegiate Place -Kicker Award as the nation's top kicker, the first major award winner in Kansas State history... First-team all-America pick the by Football Writers Association of American (FWAA), Associated Press, The Sporting News and Football News ... Finalist for the Inaugural Tatupu Award, given to the nation's outstanding special teams player... First-team All-Big 12 pick by Big 12 coaches, Associated Press , Football News, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Morning News, Waco Tribune and Kansas City Star ... Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week vs. Colorado ... AT&T Long Distance Award for 55-yard field goal vs. Ohio ... Led the nation in field-goal accuracy by making 19-of-20 (.950) field goal attempts... Set the K-State single season record with 19 field goals, while also setting a school record with 13 consecutive made field goals... Started the season with 12 consecutive successful field goals until missing 45-yarder at Oklahoma with a strong south wind... Came back to make a kick from the same distance later in the game... The only kicker in Kansas State history to boot two 50-yard field goals in the same game as he did so against Ohio and to make three 50-yard field goals in the same season... His 55-yard field goal against Ohio tied the Big 12 record for longest field goal and the third-longest in K-State history ... Set a school scoring record for kickers by scoring 14 points (3 FG, 5 PAT) vs. Bowling Green... The K-State career scoring record he broke had been established in 1933 (196 points by Ralph Graham) before being tied in 1993 by kicker Tate Wright... His 94 points scored were the third-most in a season at K-State and the most ever by a Wildcat kicker... Led the Big 12, and finished third in the nation, in field goals (1.73 per game)... Was fifth in the Big 12 in scoring with an average of 8.6 points per game... Tied the school's single-game field goal record four times with three field goals against Ohio , Bowling Green , Texas A&M and Colorado ... Had a consecutive PAT streak of 44 snapped with block at Oklahoma ... Stands third on the K-State career field goal list with 32 (five behind co-leaders Steve Willlis, 37-58, and Mark Porter, 37-54, 1985-88) and is K-State's career field goal accuracy leader with 82.1 success rate... Broke the season record by six with his 19 field goals in 1997... Missed the entire 1996 season after tearing ACL in kicking knee prior to the season... K-State Special Teams Player of the Game by coaching staff vs. Bowling Green and Colorado .
1996 (medical redshirt): Sat out season as medical redshirt after suffering knee injury during week prior to season opener ... Two-year starting placekicker ... Has made 13-of-19 career field goals, including nine of his last 12 ... Hasn't had much of an opportunity to showcase his range, but was lining up to attempt a 62-yarder in the 1996 spring game when time expired ... Had already made field goals of 52 and 45 yards in the '96 spring game.
1995 (sophomore): Didn't see many opportunities because of K-State's efficiency in the red zone (42 touchdowns in 58 red zone penetrations) ... Still connected on 7-of-10 field goals with two of his misses coming from 52 yards vs. Oklahoma and 54 yards vs. Akron ... Was 5-of-5 inside 30 yards and is 10-of-10 in his career from that distance ... Longest FG in 1995 was from 32 yards in the 41-7 victory over Kansas ... Kicked a 54-yarder in the 1994 spring game.
1994 (freshman): Connected on 6-of-9 field goals, including 5-of-5 from inside 30 yards ... Made 38-of-39 PATs ... Ranked eighth in the Big Eight in scoring with 57 points ... Scored 10 points in his collegiate debut by kicking four PATs and field goals of 23 and 25 yards vs. Southwestern Louisiana ... Added nine points in the second game of the year vs. Rice with three PATs and field goals of 40 and 27 yards ... Made his first four field goals, missed his next three and hit his last two.
High School: In his only year of high school football, Gramatica made 8-of-10 field goals with a long of 52 yards at LaBelle (Fla.) High School ... Also connected on all 22 of his extra point attempts and landed 38 of 49 kickoffs into the end zone.
Personal: Born Nov. 27, 1975, in Buenos Aires, Argentina ... Son of William and Laura Gramatica ... Major is social science ... Grew up playing soccer in Argentina ... Younger brother Bill is place-kicker at South Florida ... Youngest brother is named Santiago.
Bowl Performances: Made all five extra point attempts, but missed two field goals (52 and 44 yds) in 1997 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl ... Made six of seven extra points, and missed only field goal attempt (49 yds) in 1995 Plymouth Holiday Bowl ... Made only extra-point attempt at 1994 Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl.
Field Goals Made, Game
4 - Martin Gramatica vs. Kansas (10/31/98); Texas A&M (12/5/98)
3 - Martin Gramatica vs. Ohio (9/13/97), Bowling Green (9/27/97), Texas A&M (10/18/97); Colorado (11/15/97); Northern Illinois, 9/12/98; Colorado , 10/10/98
3 - Mark Porter vs. Tulane (9/17/88), Kansas (10/18/86), Texas Christian (9/20/86)
3 - Steve Willis vs. Iowa State (10/30/82), Kentucky (/11/82)
3 - Keith Brumley vs. Kansas (10/13/73)
Field Goals Made, Season
1. Martin Gramatica, 1998 22-31
2. Martin Gramatica, 1997 19-20
3. Steve Willis, 1982 13-20
Field Goals Made, Career
1. Martin Gramatica, 1994- 54-70 (.771)
2. Mark Porter, 1985-88 37-54 (.685)
3. Steve Willis, 1981-84 37-58 (.638)
Consecutive Field Goals, Career
13 - Martin Gramatica, 11/19/95 - 10/18/97
Consecutive Field Goals, Season
12 - Martin Gramatica, 9/6/97 - first attempt 10/18/97
