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...
- 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...
- as the UFL adopted a kickoff rule requiring the ball go 80 yards for a touchback, 15 yards longer than other levels of organized football. On March 30...
- team by holding it to stop its roll); a kicked ball comes to rest; a touchback occurs; or under NFL or college rules, on fourth down (or, in the NFL...
- Looking Gl**** (2018); and the drama films Prey for Rock & Roll (2004) and Touchback (2011). Marcus Paul Blucas was born on January 11, 1972, in Butler, Pennsylvania...
- 19.5-point favorites. Georgia Tech received the opening kickoff for a touchback. The drive resulted in a quick three-and-out leading to a punt from the...
- line is automatically a touchback; kicks cannot be returned out of the end zone. The spot of placement after all touchbacks—including those resulting...