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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.
The recorded yardage gained is the total yardage gained when the play ends, and may be subdivided into Air Yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the spot where the ball was caught) and Yards After Catch (the distance from where the ball was caught to where the play ends on the field or out of bounds).
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 ...
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.
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Canadian football and the Canadian Football League (CFL). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.
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 ...
This is a list of Canadian Football League regular season records that are effective as of the end of the 2024 CFL season. Italics indicate an active player. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.