Definition of Touchback. Meaning of Touchback. Synonyms of Touchback

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Definition of Touchback

Touchback
Touchback Touch"back`, n. (G) The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

Meaning of Touchback from wikipedia

- In American football, a touchback is a ruling that is made and signaled by an official when the ball becomes dead on or behind a team's own goal line...
- Touchback is a 2011 American sports film, written and directed by Don Handfield and starring Brian Presley, Melanie Lynskey, Kurt Russell, and Christine...
- Game and Home of the Brave. Borderland was released in 2007. In the film Touchback, released in April 2012, he plays a high school football star (as Presley...
- Smit-McPhee made her feature film debut in the 2011 American sports film Touchback, alongside Kurt Russell. In 2012, she featured in the American Broadcasting...
- Penn state began the game receiving the opening kickoff and taking a touchback. On their second play from scrimmage during the first possession, Penn...
- line following a touchback on either a kickoff or a free kick following a safety. The NFL adopted this rule in 2018. In all other touchback situations at...
- Since 2018, the National Collegiate Athletic ****ociation (NCAA) has had a touchback provision where fair catches caught anywhere inside the 25-yard line on...
- to his team for a return. If he decides that it is not, he can make a touchback by kneeling down in the end zone after catching the ball, ending the play...
- second half. Ohio State's opening position began on the 25 following a touchback, but quickly fizzled into a three-and-out. Alabama started their opening...
- touchdown if recovered by the team that scores in that end zone, or a touchback if recovered and downed by the opposing team In the event of a kick recovered...