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Fair catch

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A fair catch is a feature of American football and several other codes of football, in which a player attempting to catch a ball kicked by the opposing team – either on a kickoff or punt – is entitled to catch the ball without interference from any member of the kicking team. [1]

21 relations: American football, Arena football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Dead ball, End zone, Fair catch kick, Football, Kickoff (gridiron football), Mark (Australian rules football), Mark (rugby), National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Football League, Punt (gridiron football), Rugby league, Rugby union, Snap (gridiron football), Speedball (American ball game), Touchback, Unsportsmanlike conduct, XFL.

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Arena football

Arena football is a variety of indoor gridiron football played by the Arena Football League (AFL) and China Arena Football League (CAFL).

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Canadian football

Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone).

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Dead ball

Dead ball is a term in many ball sports in which the ball is deemed temporarily not playable, and no movement may be made with it or the players from their respective positions of significance.

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End zone

The end zone is the scoring area on the field, according to gridiron-based codes of football.

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Fair catch kick

The fair catch kick is a rule at the professional and high school levels of American football that allows a team that has just made a fair catch to attempt a free kick from the spot of the catch.

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Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.

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Kickoff (gridiron football)

A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in American football and Canadian football.

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Mark (Australian rules football)

A mark is a skill in Australian rules football where a player cleanly catches (is deemed to have controlled the ball for sufficient time or touched the ball in flight 3 or more times) a kicked ball that has travelled more than 15 metres without anyone else touching it (prior to the player marking the ball) or the ball hitting the ground.

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Mark (rugby)

In rugby union, a player may mark a ball, which means that the player may catch it and cannot be tackled by rival players, and the marking player takes a free-kick at the position of the mark.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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Punt (gridiron football)

In American and Canadian football, a punt is a kick performed by dropping the ball from the hands and then kicking the ball before it hits the ground.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Snap (gridiron football)

A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backwards passing of the ball in American and Canadian football at the start of play from scrimmage.

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Speedball (American ball game)

Speedball is a quick, fast paced sport that combines many aspects of other sports.

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Touchback

In American football, a touchback is a ruling which is made and signaled by an official when the ball becomes dead on or behind a team's own goal line (i.e., in an end zone) and the opposing team gave the ball the momentum, or impetus, to travel over or across the goal line.

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Unsportsmanlike conduct

Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called unsporting behaviour or ungentlemanly conduct or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct.

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XFL

The XFL was a professional American football league that played its only season in 2001.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch

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