After kicking the longest field goal (fifty-three yards) in Rhode Island schoolboy football history against Smithfield, Warren High School kicker Paul Boulanger was named to the 1989 first All State team.  During his senior season he kicked four other field goals, including a forty-four yarder versus South Kingstown.  And his four punts in the rain against Classical averaged forty-nine yards.

That same year he was a member of the All Class C-Two first team as a running back (he ran for six hundred and fifty yards), punter, and offensive kicker.  In fact, he received Class C-Two football honors in all four years of high school competition, including 1986, when, as a freshman member of Pat Abbruzzi’s eighth and final Warren High championship team, Paul was the second team All Class C-Two punter.

Paul played American Legion baseball for Alegria’s, a combined Warren and Bristol team that reached the state semi-finals in 1990.  The preceding year, pitching for Warren High School, he was named to the All Eastern first team.

Competing in college football for Southern Connecticut as a freshman, he kicked a forty-eight yard field goal on the last play of the game to defeat Central Connecticut, 12-10.

In pre-high school and college days Paul was a member of the Warren Little League team that was the 1983 District Two runner-up and the Warren Babe Ruth 1986 District Three Champions.  In 1984 he led the Little League with twelve home runs and a .667 batting average.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives