touchback
回球,回踢,回场,回回球
Definitions
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Football.
- : a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone.Compare safety.
Examples
In 2012, college football moved the kickoff line forward from the 30-yard line to the 35 and the touchback line from the 20-yard line to the 25, encouraging teams to take touchbacks and avoid some of those collisions.
Burrow fumbled and Ronald Darby recovered in the end zone for Washington, resulting in a touchback.
The other, to his immediate left, is calling for a touchback, the result of an interception.
Carmine finally fell on the ball for a touchback and the excitement in the stands subsided.
But the Boxford boy was on the ball and had scored a touchback!
She punted on the next down and Stone misjudged the ball and followed it across the line for a touchback.
He might have played it safe by taking it over the line for a touchback, but the idea didnt occur to him.