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2. Holder (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

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   Jake Schum of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers holding for a field goal attempt in 2015. In gridiron football, the holder is the player who receives the snap from the long snapper during field goal or extra point attempts made by the placekicker. The holder is set on one knee seven yards behind the line-of-scrimmage.

3. Field goal - Wikipedia

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   [a] American football requires that a field goal must only come during a play from scrimmage (except in the case of a fair catch kick) while Canadian football retains open field kicks and thus field goals may be scored at any time from anywhere on the field and by any player. The vast majority of field goals, in both codes, are placekicked.

4. American football positions - Wikipedia

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   Placekickers, colloquially called simply a kicker, handle kickoffs, extra points, and field goals. All three situations require the kicker to kick the ball off the ground, either from the hands of a holder or off a tee. Some teams employ two kickers: one kicks extra points and field goals.

5. Tee - Wikipedia

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   The CFL and some high school leagues also allow the use of another sort of tee on field goal and extra point kicks, where another player (the holder) places one end of the ball on this "tee" (which is not a tee in the strictest sense of the term, but instead a rubber block; such "tees" come in 1" and 2" types) and holds the opposite end; in ...

6. List of gridiron football rules - Wikipedia

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   Similarly to association football, the game begins with a coin toss to determine which team will kick off to begin the game and which goal each team will defend. [2] The options are presented again to start the second half; the choices for the first half do not automatically determine the start of the second half (i.e. it is possible for the same team to kick off both halves). [3]

7. Temple kicker hits longest college football field goal in 16 ...

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   The longest field goal in NCAA history is a 69-yard kick by Ove Johansson of Abilene Christian in 1976, but kickers were able to kick off a holding tee until 1989.

8. Fairbairn's 59-yard field goal as time expires gives Texans ...

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   Fairbairn added a 50-yard field goal as time expired in the second quarter and his 47-yarder early in the third made it 20-3. Injuries Texans RB British Brooks left with a knee injury in the first ...

9. Tom Dempsey - Wikipedia

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   This walk-off kick eclipsed both Dempsey's and Graham Gano's 63-yarder in 2018 as the longest field goal to win a game on its final play. [ 11 ] [ 14 ] Since Dempsey was the only kicker to make a field goal from more than sixty yards prior to the relocation of the goal posts, he remains the only player in NFL history to successfully kick a ...