2 Verbs to Use for the Word kicker

Adair's entrance coincided with a record effort by Stone, which caused the kicker to overbalance and stagger backward against the captain.

The great universities had long idolized plug-ugly football kickers and baseball sluggers to the utter ignoring of scholarship, until the hordes of eleemosinary prize-fighters among the so-called students created a reign of terror where they were located, and far surpassed in ferocity even the gladiators of ancient Rome.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  kicker