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  2. Touch football (American) - Wikipedia

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    Offensive touch football player tries to get out of reach of defending player. Touch football is an amateur variant of American football and Canadian football.The basic rules are similar to those of the mainstream game (called "tackle football" for contrast), but to end a down, the person carrying the ball need only be touched, instead of tackled, by a member of the opposite team. [1]

  3. Throw-in - Wikipedia

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    The throw-in is taken from the point where the ball crossed the touch-line, either on the ground or in the air, though typically a referee will tolerate small discrepancies between the position where the ball crossed the touch-line and the position of the throw-in. [1] Opposing players may not approach closer than 2 m (2.2 yd) to the point on the touch-line from which the throw-in is to be taken.

  4. American football rules - Wikipedia

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    The rules vary from the college level to the professional level. In the NFL, unless a player is tagged by an opposing player or gives himself up, he is not down. A player carrying the ball (the runner) is downed when any of the following occurs: Any part of the runner other than his hands or feet touches the ground. Ankles and wrists count as ...

  5. Two-point conversion - Wikipedia

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    In gridiron football, a two-point conversion, two-point convert, or two-point attempt 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 ...

  6. List of gridiron football rules - Wikipedia

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    A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...

  7. The NFL is walking a fine line between player safety ... - AOL

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    Twenty-two months later, the tackling technique that landed Drake on the back of a cart now appears to be squarely in the NFL’s crosshairs. League executive Jeff Miller said Tuesday that the NFL ...

  8. American football - Wikipedia

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    Another variant, touch football, simply requires the ball-carrier to be touched to be considered downed. Depending on the rules used, a game of touch football may require the ball-carrier be touched with either one or two hands to be considered downed. [220]

  9. A 'You got Mossed' by a lineman? You bet. Watch 1-handed ...

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    As a two-way lineman for the Northwest High School football team, Colin Smith generally makes his impact on the line of scrimmage.. Northwest's 46-7 rout of Tuslaw this past Friday, though, gave ...