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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Most rushing yards, by a Canadian, one season (all 1000 yard rushers included) ... 2023 CFL Guide & Record Book
"A goal from touch-down." The try/convert is among the oldest parts of the game of gridiron football and dates to its rugby roots. In its earliest days, scoring a touchdown was not the primary objective but a means of getting a free kick at the goal (which is why the name "try", more commonly associated with rugby today, is still used in American football rule books), and thus early scoring ...
"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 ...
no yards A penalty against the kicking team: all offside (sense 2) players must be at least five yards from the ball when it is first touched by a member of the receiving team. This is now always a 15-yard penalty. offside Not onside. A player not onside incurs a five-yard penalty. onside. Legally positioned at the kick-off or the snap.
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