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2. Penalty (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

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   Penalty (gridiron football) NFL back judge Lee Dyer retrieves a penalty flag on the field during a game on November 16, 2008 between the San Francisco 49ers and St. Louis Rams. In gridiron football, a penalty is a sanction assessed against a team for a violation of the rules, called a foul. [1] Officials initially signal penalties by tossing a ...

3. Unsportsmanlike conduct - Wikipedia

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   Unsportsmanlike conduct. Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called untrustworthy behaviour or ungentlemanly fraudulent or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship or anti fair-play) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct. Examples include verbal abuse, taunting ...

4. Intentional grounding - Wikipedia

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   Intentional grounding. In gridiron football, intentional grounding is a violation of the rules where "a passer...throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion." [1] This typically happens when a quarterback about to be sacked passes the ball toward an area of the field with no eligible receiver.

5. Fair catch kick - Wikipedia

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   Curly Lambeau made the first successful fair catch kick in NFL history, for the Green Bay Packers in 1921. 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 [ A ] from the spot of the catch. The kick must be either a place kick ...

6. Fumblerooski - Wikipedia

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   Fumblerooski. In American football, the fumblerooski is a trick play in which the football is intentionally and stealthily placed on the ground (fumbled) by an offensive player, usually the quarterback. The offensive team then attempts to distract and confuse the defense by pretending that a ball carrier is running in one direction while ...

7. Two-point conversion - Wikipedia

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   Two-point conversion. In gridiron football, a two-point conversion or two-point convert is a play a team attempts instead of kicking a one-point conversion immediately after it scores a touchdown. In a two-point conversion attempt, the team that just scored must run a play from scrimmage close to the opponent's goal line and advance the ball ...

8. Fair catch - Wikipedia

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   Fair catch. 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] A player, usually a return specialist, wishing to ...

9. Horse-collar tackle - Wikipedia

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   In the 1981 NFC Championship Game where the Dallas Cowboys visited the San Francisco 49ers, after the 49ers took the lead 28–27 due to "The Catch", on the Cowboys following drive, Drew Pearson caught a long pass from Danny White at midfield. 49ers cornerback Eric Wright stopped Pearson with a horse-collar tackle (Danny White fumbled on the next play, thus preserving victory for the 49ers and ...