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In American football, if a team attempting an extra point or two-point conversion (officially known in the rulebooks as a try) scores what would normally be a safety, that attempting team is awarded one point. [22] [23] [24] This is commonly known as a conversion safety or one-point safety.
The first known occurrence of a one-point safety (conversion safety) was in an NCAA game on October 2, 1971, scored by Syracuse in the first quarter of a game at Indiana. On a point-after-touchdown kick, the ball was kicked almost straight up in the air, and an Indiana player illegally batted the ball in the end zone.
And has never occurred in NFL play, and has only occurred three times in NCAA division 1 football. [26] [27] Since a one-point safety cannot occur unless the other team at least scores a touchdown a final score of 0–1 to 5-1 and 7–1 are not possible in American football, though a final score of 6-1 or 8-1 or higher is.
It is still possible to score a single point in American football on a conversion safety, a rule that also applies in Canadian football. [11] Some indoor American football leagues have used the single, namely the National Indoor Football League, the American Indoor Football Association and the Professional Indoor Football League, all now defunct.
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It appears that within a day or two, the play had been characterized as a one-point safety in a post-game explanation of the ruling, because that's when an AP syndicated football column described it as a one-point safety (see "College Football Notes"): "It was a one-point safety. A what? A one-point safety.