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A lateral during an option play. In gridiron football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football) occurs when the ball carrier throws or hands the football to a teammate in a direction parallel to or away from the opponents' goal line.
The hook and lateral, also known colloquially as the hook and ladder, is a trick play in American, Canadian football and indoor American football.. The hook and lateral starts with the hook, which is where a wide receiver runs a predetermined distance, usually 10 to 20 yards down the field, and along the sideline, and "hooks in" towards the center of the field to receive a forward pass from ...
Tight end Andrew Quarless (81) in motion. In gridiron football, motion refers to the movement of an offensive player at the time of the snap.. While there are different rules regarding motion, most mandate that no more than one player may be in motion at the time of the snap, [1] and the player must not be an offensive lineman (typically, the player in motion is a wide receiver or running back ...
This position is used in 3-4 formations, or goal line situations. Most nose tackles are 320-350 pounds, and are the biggest players on the roster. This position is the most physically demanding, due to being forced into constant double or triple teams, and needing enough speed to collapse the interior of the offensive line.
In American football, only one offensive player can be in motion at a time, cannot be moving toward the line of scrimmage at the snap, and may not be a player who is on the line of scrimmage. In Canadian football, more than one back can be in motion, and may move in any direction as long as they are behind the line of scrimmage at the snap.
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 ...
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A shift occurs when one or more players changes their position on the offensive side of the ball before the snap, causing a change in formation. For example, players may line up initially in an I-formation and then shift the two running backs into wide receiver positions to put the offense in a spread formation. A team may shift any number of ...