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Tackle (football move)

Index Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle. [1]

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AFL Tribunal

The AFL Tribunal is the disciplinary tribunal of the Australian Football League (AFL), an Australian rules football competition.

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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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Ankle tap

An ankle-tap or tap-tackle is a form of tackle used in both codes of rugby and gridiron football.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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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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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is a department of the BBC North division providing national sports coverage for BBC Television, radio and online.

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Brent Harvey

Brent Harvey (born 14 May 1978), often known by his nickname "Boomer", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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British Bulldog (game)

British Bulldog (also: running red rovers, red rovers, rovers, jailbreak, octopus, seaweed, bullies, bullrush, Russian bulldog, bulldogs charge, or simply bulldogs) is a tag-based game, of which red rover is a descendant.

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Byron Pickett

Byron Pickett (born 11 August 1977) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with three clubs in the AFL.

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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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Chicken wing tackle

A chicken wing tackle is a move in Australian rules football and rugby league, in which a player locks an opponent's arm so that he or she cannot legally move the ball.

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Chokehold

A chokehold, choke, stranglehold or, in Judo, shime-waza (絞技; constriction technique) is a general term for a grappling hold that critically reduces or prevents either air (choking)The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1999).

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Clipping (gridiron football)

In gridiron football, clipping is the act of a "throwing the body across the back of the leg of an eligible receiver or charging or falling into the back of an opponent below the waist after approaching him from behind, provided the opponent is not a runner."This is the NFL's definition: It is also clipping to roll up on the legs of an opponent after a block.

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Clothesline (disambiguation)

Clothesline is an apparatus for laundry drying.

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Coathanger (Australian rules football)

A coathanger is a dangerous high tackle in Australian rules football, Rugby League, and Rugby Union.

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Contact sport

Contact sports are sports that emphasize or require physical contact between players.

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Cut blocking

In gridiron football, cut blocking or "chop,-blocking” is an offensive line technique that consists of an offensive player knocking a defensive player down by hitting his knees.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Darren Milburn

Darren Milburn (born 15 April 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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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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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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Dump tackle

The dump tackle is a tackling technique favoured mainly by rugby league players.

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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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Football helmet

The football helmet is a piece of protective equipment used mainly in American football and Canadian football.

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Free kick (Australian rules football)

A free kick in Australian rules football is a penalty awarded by a field umpire to a player who has been infringed by an opponent or is the nearest player to a player from the opposite team who has broken a rule.

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Gaelic football

Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil or Caid), commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport.

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Grapple tackle

A grapple tackle is a controversial tackling technique used in rugby league.

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Gridiron football

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Handball (Australian rules football)

Handball or handpass is a skill in the sport of Australian rules football.

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Helmet-to-helmet collision

Helmet-to-helmet collisions are occurrences in American football when two players' helmets make head-to-head contact with a high degree of force.

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Hockey

Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.

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Holding the ball

Holding the ball is a rule in Australian rules football.

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Holding the man

Holding the man is an infringement in the game of Australian rules football.

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Horse-collar tackle

The horse-collar tackle is an American football maneuver in which a defender tackles another player by grabbing the back collar or the back-inside of an opponent's shoulder pads and pulling the ball carrier directly downward in order to pull his feet from underneath him.

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Hurling

Hurling (iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin.

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International rules football

International rules football (Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta; also known as inter rules in Australia and compromise rules in Ireland) is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players.

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Kick (football)

Kicking is a method used by many types of football, including.

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Line of scrimmage

In American and Canadian football, a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line (across the width of the football field) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun.

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Middle Dutch

Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) spoken and written between 1150 and 1500.

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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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Offside (sport)

Offside, often pluralized as Offsides in American English, is a rule used by several different team sports regulating aspects of player positioning.

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One percenter (Australian rules football)

A one percenter (1%er) is a statistic kept in Australian rules football, and relates to a variety of actions which benefit the team, but are infrequent or defensive.

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Play from scrimmage

A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.

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Quarterback

A quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB") is a position in American and Canadian football.

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Quarterback sack

In American football and Canadian football, a sack occurs when the quarterback (or another offensive player acting as a passer) is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a forward pass, when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage in the "pocket" and his intent is unclear, or when a passer runs out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage due to defensive pressure.

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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 league positions

A rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field, with four substitutes on the bench.

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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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Rugby union gameplay

Rugby union is a contact sport that consists of two teams of fifteen players.

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Safety (gridiron football position)

Safety, historically known as a safetyman, is a position in American and Canadian football played by a member of the defense.

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Shepherding (Australian rules football)

Shepherding is a tactic and skill in Australian rules football, a team sport.

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Shinty

Shinty (camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball.

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Sliding tackle

A sliding tackle or slide tackle is a tackle in association football.

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Spear tackle

A spear tackle is a tackle in rugby union, rugby league and Australian rules football in which a player lifts another player into the air and drops them such that they land on their back, head or neck.

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Spearing (gridiron football)

In American and Canadian football (Gridiron football), spearing is a tackling technique in which a player makes initial contact with the crown of their helmet by using their body as a spear (head out, arms by their side).

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Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle.

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Terrell Owens

Terrell Eldorado Owens (born December 7, 1973), popularly known by his initials, T.O., is a former American football wide receiver.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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2008 International Rules Series

The 2008 International Rules Series was the 14th annual International Rules Series and was played between Ireland and Australia.

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2009 AFL season

The 2009 Australian Football League season commenced on 26 March and concluded on 26 September.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tackle_(football_move)

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