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All-purpose yards or all-purpose yardage is a gridiron football statistical measure. It is virtually the same as the statistic that some football leagues refer to as combined net yards . [ 1 ] In the game of football, progress is measured by advancing the football towards the opposing team's goal line .
A typical lineup for an extra point, from the pre-2015 distance, in a 2007 NFL game between the New England Patriots and the Cleveland Browns. The conversion, try (American football), also known as a point(s) after touchdown, PAT, extra point, two-point conversion, or convert (Canadian football) is a gridiron football play that occurs immediately after a touchdown.
"Hash marks" are painted in white, parallel to the yardage lines, at 1 yard (0.9 m) intervals, 24 yards (21.9 m) from the sidelines under amateur rules, but 28 yards (25.6 m) in the CFL. On fields that have a surrounding running track , such as Molson Stadium and many universities , the end zones are often cut off in the corners to accommodate ...
Scrimmage yards Special teams yards All-purpose yards 1954: 1360 Alex Webster: 805 Johnny Fedosoff: 1791 Ken Carpenter: 1955: 1525 Pat Abruzzi: 960 Don Pinhey: 1610 Pat Abruzzi 1956: 2039 Hal Patterson: 988 Don Pinhey 2858 Hal Patterson 1957: 1979 Johnny Bright: 1026 Harry Lunn: 2011 Johnny Bright 1958: 1987 Johnny Bright 1512 Mike Hagler: 2550 ...
In order to keep play moving, the offense must make a certain amount of progress (10 yards in most leagues) within a certain number of plays (3 in Canada, 4 in the United States), called downs. If the offense does indeed make this progress, a first down is achieved, and the team gets 3 or 4 more plays to achieve another 10 yards. If not, the ...
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That same year, the CFL also moved back its line of scrimmage for one-point converts to the 25-yard line (while moving the scrimmage line for a two-point convert ahead two yards to the 3-yard line), thus making the length for a one-point attempt the same in both the NFL and CFL (taking into account the NFL's goalposts on the end line, and the ...
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