In the 1960s, Maryland University hired one of its most innovative and eccentric coaches of all-time, head football coach
Tom Nugent. Nugent was a master promoter and showman, always looking for new ways to draw fans and attention to his Maryland Terrapins. For the 1964 season, one such idea was to turn his kicker into a "human scoreboard."
At the beginning of the 1964 season, Bramson's number was 0. But once he kicked his first field goal, he was no. 3. The players on the sidelines "changed" his number during games by putting tape on his jersey in the shape of the correct numbers. By season's end, he was "wearing" number 44 - the number of points he'd scored all year. Bramson's nine field goals in 1964 were school and ACC records, and were third-most in the nation.