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...
- 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...
- attempts to regain possession of the ball by kicking it a short distance; a touchback, which may occur if the ball is kicked into the receiving team's end zone;...
- line is automatically a touchback; kicks cannot be returned out of the end zone. The spot of placement after all touchbacks—including those resulting...
- Magazine as one of the "25 new faces of independent film". In 2012 the film Touchback was written and directed by Handfield, starring actors Kurt Russell and...
- 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...
- the opponent's end zone, and then goes over the end line or sideline, a touchback is awarded to the defensive team. If a team fumbles the ball out of bounds...