Raul Allegre
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| Position: | Kicker | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | June 15, 1959 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Torreón, Coahuila | ||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 165 lb (75 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Shelton (WA) | ||||||||
| College: | Texas | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1983 | ||||||||
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| FG Att: | 186 |
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| FGM: | 137 |
| Pct: | 73.7 |
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Raúl Enrique Allegre Rodríguez (born June 15, 1959 in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico) is a former football placekicker in the National Football League. In his career he kicked for the Baltimore Colts, Indianapolis Colts, New York Giants, and the New York Jets. Although he was not known for having a strong leg, he was a clutch kicker for the Giants from 1986–1989.
Allegre began playing football in 1977, while attending Shelton High School in Shelton, Washington. Although a soccer player, he had never played American football before his exchange student year at Shelton. SHS Head Coach, Jack Stark asked him to try kicking footballs one day before the season began. He had great distance but each ball went below the crossbar. Coach Stark asked him if he could kick it above the crossbar and Allegre remarked that he could, but thought it like a soccer goal and was aiming below. Allegre kicked all extra points, field goals and kicked off. He broke all the previous kicking records at SHS that season, and regularly kicked off into, and out of the end zone. Because Shelton's team did not get much exposure, Coach Stark filmed Raúl kicking from long distance after the season and sent the tape to the University of Montana, who offered Allegre a scholarship. He previously played soccer with Daron "Woody" Harris. Allegre later attended University of Texas at Austin, where he earned an undergraduate degree in civil engineering. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Dallas Cowboys in 1983, but was traded the same year to the Baltimore Colts in exchange for a ninth round draft choice. At the end of the 1985 season, Allegre was selected for the Pro Bowl, but he was cut early the next season.
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