Missouri State

WAYNE BOYER Football, 1993-96 Inducted February 24, 2007

Wayne Boyer was the most prolific of a lengthy group of successful placekickers who have performed for the football Bears over the past 30 years. A native of St. Louis, Boyer was the Bears' placekicker from 1993 to 1996, adding the punting duties his final season. Playing for head coach Del Miller as a senior after three years with head coach Jesse Branch, Boyer was a consensus I-AA All-American in 1996 as he captured first team honors from Associated Press, Football Gazette, The Sports Network, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Football Foundation and American Football Quarterly, and was also on the all-Gateway Football Conference first team. Boyer's 1996 season included Division I-AA leadership in field goals as he booted 25 three-pointers in 30 attempts. He set an NCAA record as he hit all five of his field goal tries from beyond 50 yards. Boyer added 28-of-28 conversions for 103 points and punted for a 41.9-yard average. He finished 10th in the nation in scoring and was seventh in I-AA punting with the second best season punting average ever at MSU. He was the first Bears' footballer to play in a major college all-star game as he kicked and punted in the East-West Shrine Game in Palo Alto, Calif., hitting a PAT and just missing the longest field goal in Shrine Game history. Boyer still holds MSU career records for total points and placekicking points (247), field goals (49), season field goals (25), season placekicking points (103), and shares the single game records for field goals kicked in a game (4, on two occasions) and points scored in a game by a kicker (15). He became the first Bears' gridder to kick a field goal in each of the 11 games of a season including a 57-yarder against Truman State that's the longest in Bears' grid history. Boyer led the Bears in scoring each of his last three seasons.