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He was a four-sport star ( football, basketball, soccer, and track) at Oakville's White Oaks High School, and originally enrolled at Michigan State University as a quarterback in 1988. However, he left Michigan State for a California junior college, where he punted and played quarterback. He returned to major-college football as a punter and placekicker at West Virginia University, starring in both roles in 1991 and 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi.

After graduating from WVU in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic., he returned to Canada and started a career in the CFLThe Canadian Football League (French: Ligue Canadienne de Football is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. The league's top trophy, the Grey Cup, was donated by Governor-General Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winni. He played briefly for the Saskatchewan RoughridersThe Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The team is known for the loyalty, enthusiasm and 'Rider pride of its fans, who wear the green and white through good times and bad and make every home game a in 1993. He did not play in 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an or 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja. Vanderjagt returned to the league in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan with the Toronto ArgonautsThe Toronto Argonauts are a Canadian Football League team based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded 1873 Formerly known as Home stadium SkyDome, Toronto, Ontario (Plans are afoot to move to York University in 2006) Uniform colours Oxford blue, Cambridge blue and, serving as the regular placekicker and punter. He led the CFL in yardage per punt in 1997, and the Argos won the Grey Cup in both 1996 and 1997.

In 1998, Vanderjagt crossed the border and joined the Colts, and has been a fixture as the club's placekicker ever since. He led the NFL in scoring in 1999, and is now the most accurate field-goal kicker in the league's history (174-198, 87.9% at the end of the 2003 season).

After the 2002 season, Vanderjagt put himself in the center of a media firestorm in an interview for the Canadian cable sports network The Score. He said that Colts quarterback Peyton Manning needed to show more emotion, and implied that head coach Tony Dungy was too placid and not enough of a motivator. He apologized several days later for his remarks, but Manning later fired back in a sideline interview at the Pro Bowl, referring to him as "our idiot kicker who got liquored up and ran his mouth off." After some offseason tension, all parties settled their differences.

Vanderjagt had a spectacular 2003 season, becoming the first kicker in the league's history to go an entire season without missing a field goal or point-after attempt. In the process, he made his first Pro Bowl. He finished the regular season 37 for 37 in field goals and 46 for 46 in PATs. He was also perfect on three field-goal attempts and 12 PATs in the postseason. Vanderjagt's streak of 42 consecutive successful field goal attempts, the longest in NFL history (the league does not include postseason games when compiling streaks), ended on September 9, 2004 when he missed a 48-yard attempt against the New England Patriots.