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Gridiron football (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ d aɪ. ər n / GRID-eye-ərn), [1] also known as North American football, [2] or in North America as simply football, is a family of team sports derived from rugby football (and football, by extension) primarily played in the United States and Canada.
A set of gridiron football goal posts—two uprights (vertical) and a crossbar (horizontal) A field goal (FG) is a means of scoring in gridiron football. To score a field goal, the team in possession of the ball must place kick, or drop kick, the ball through the goal, i.e., between the uprights and over the crossbar. [1]
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 ...
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.
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A field goal from that range has a low rate of success but was chosen over punting or going for a fourth down conversion. The dead zone (also known as four-down territory or no man's land ) is an area on the field of gridiron football where an offense is on their opponent's side of the field, but kicking a field goal would likely be ...
Christian will be in the trenches this season for the Tomcats on both sides of the ball, battling it out to protect the guys in his backfield as well as take down the opposition's backfield.