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2014 Utah Football Review: Special Teams Highlights
3/17/2015 12:00 AM | Football
March 17, 2015
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With spring practice approaching, utahutes.com takes a look back at the Utah football team's 2014 campaign. Today's fourth installment goes back to the special teams highlights of the past season. Be sure to keep checking utahutes.com for updates throughout spring practice.
2014 Utah Football Review:
Part 1: Game-by-Game Capsules
Part 2: Offensive Highlights
Part 3: Defensive Highlights
Part 4: Special Teams Highlights
#PunterDownUnder: Tom Hackett was named the first Ray Guy Award winner in school history as the nation's top punter and was a consensus All-American. A first-team All-Pac-12 punter for the second time, he led the nation in punts inside the 10 (19) and punts inside the 20 (36).
Hackett ranked third nationally and led the Pac-12 in punting average (46.7 yards per game) and helped Utah finish third in the nation in net punting (42.69).
#puntersarepeopletoo @RayGuyAward @TomHackett33 https://t.co/ETR1VdNlKA
- Utah Football (@Utah_Football) December 12, 2014
Big Play Clay: Kaelin Clay made four All-America teams as a punt returner (including three first-team honors) and won the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) Punt Returner Trophy. The first-team All-Pac-12 return specialist ran back three punts for touchdowns, which tied for first in the nation and also tied the school record.
He led the Pac-12 and ranked fourth in the nation in punt return average (15.0) to lead Utah to a No. 9 national ranking in punt return average (13.79).
@CALiboy4 Awarded 2014 CFPA Punt Returner Trophy. Clay had http://t.co/StKYPtn5QC
- Block U (@BlockU) January 13, 2015
Automatic Andy: First-team All-Pac-12 place kicker Andy Phillips was a Lou Groza semifinalist, a two-time Lou Groza Star of the Week and a two-time Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week.
He finished second in the nation in made field goals from 40+ yards with 12 and his 80-percent success rate from 40+ yards (12-of-15, including 2-of-2 from 50 yards) was best in the nation for kickers with a minimum of 13 attempts from that distance. His 23 field goals tied for fourth in the nation and led the Pac-12.
Was Andy Phillips behind the best #Pac12AfterDark moment of 2014? Tweet @pac12Networks with #AutomaticAndy! pic.twitter.com/bCHkjKkCao
- Utah Athletics (@utahathletics) December 2, 2014
.@TomHackett33, @AndyDPhillips & @CALiboy4 named Special Teams @pac12 first-team all-conference. #SFG #GoUtes pic.twitter.com/7Gb0J8Txlo
- Utah Football (@Utah_Football) December 3, 2014
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