City: | Ft. Meyer |
State: | Florida |
Team: | Blue Devils Baseball |
Bob Hight attended Centralia Junior College, now Kaskaskia College, from 1959-1960 lettering in baseball. After graduation from Southern Illinois University where he attended on a football scholarship, Bob signed with the Buffalo Bills in 1965, spending a season on the taxi squad and was featured in Jeff Miller’s published history of the Bills.
In 1966, Bob won a national field goal kicking competition sponsored by the Dallas Cowboys, signed with that team, and kicked a fifty-five yard field goal against the L.A. Rams. Bob was kicker for the Rockford Rams, Central States Football League from 1971-73, kicking the winning field goal in the league championship in 1972, and held the league record for longest field goal (55 yards) and most field goals in a season. In 1973, Bob played with the Oakland Raiders as a game time replacement.