Toni Fritsch was 60 when he died in Austria. He was born in Vienna in 1945.
Today, soccer style kickers are all over the NFL. It was not always that way.
The New York Times remembered Toni:
Toni Fritsch, a former soccer player for Austria's national team who was discovered overseas by the Dallas Cowboys and became a record-setting National Football League place-kicker, died Tuesday in Vienna. He was 60.Toni was a very popular Cowboy.
Peter Klingelmueller, a spokesman for Rapid Vienna, the soccer club on which Fritsch played for 14 years, confirmed Fritsch's death. The Austria Press Agency reported that Fritsch collapsed at a restaurant and died of heart failure.