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  2. Free kick (association football) - Wikipedia

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    Football governing bodies may provide further instruction to referees on administering quick free kicks; for example, the United States Soccer Federation advises that referees should not allow a quick free kick if a card is shown prior to the restart, if a trainer has to enter the field to attend to an injured player, if the kicking team ...

  3. Quick kick - Wikipedia

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    A quick kick is usually done from closer to the line of scrimmage than an ordinary punt. For approximately the decade of the 1910s in American football, the rules discouraged the quick kick by requiring that the ball be kicked from at least five yards behind the line of scrimmage.

  4. Free kick - Wikipedia

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    A free kick in Australian rules football is awarded after a player commits a penalty. The player must then kick the ball back to the other team. When a free kick is awarded, the player's opponent stands the mark, standing on the spot where the umpire indicates that the free kick was paid or mark was taken. The player with the ball then retreats ...

  5. Fair catch kick - Wikipedia

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    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 or a drop kick , and if it passes over the crossbar and between the goalposts of the opposing team's goal, a ...

  6. Chargers take advantage of obscure NFL rule with free kick ...

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    Chargers take advantage of obscure NFL rule with free kick field goal last successful in 1976 ... Cameron Dicker #11 of the Los Angeles Chargers kicks off during an NFL football game against the ...

  7. Vanishing spray - Wikipedia

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    Vanishing spray is applied from an aerosol can carried by the referee in a holster secured to their shorts. The referee has full discretion on whether or not to use vanishing spray, and opponents are required to retreat 10 yards from the spot of a free kick regardless of whether vanishing spray is used (unless the team awarded the kick elects to take a "quick" free kick with opponents still ...

  8. Jim Harbaugh, Chargers take advantage of fair-catch kick: 'My ...

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    “It's my favorite rule in football," Jim Harbaugh said of the fair-catch kick. The play helped jump-start the Chargers' comeback on TNF. ... A rare fair catch free kick results in a Cameron ...

  9. Obscure rule leads to Chargers getting 1st made fair catch ...

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    It takes a specific circumstance for an NFL team to try a fair catch free kick. That's why one hadn't been made in almost 50 years. On Thursday night, viewers got a lesson on a little-known rule ...