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2. Tee - Wikipedia

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   A kicking tee is a rubber or plastic platform, often with prongs and/or a brim around an inner depression. In American football and Canadian football, a tee may be used on kickoffs to raise the ball slightly above the playing surface (up to one inch, by NFL and NCAA rules). The first use of the tee is attributed to Arda Bowser, a member of the ...

3. Safety (gridiron football score) - Wikipedia

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   Prior to 2024, a tee could not be used in the NFL; a tee has always been legal in high school or college football. Once the ball has been kicked, it can be caught and advanced by any member of the receiving team, and it can be recovered by the kicking team if the ball travels at least 10 yards or a player of the receiving team touches the ball ...

4. Dirk Borgognone - Wikipedia

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   He spent years bouncing between NFL training camps, mainly as a kickoff specialist (the NFL had prohibited the use of kicking tees for field goals and extra points for a decade). Dirk received unsuccessful tryouts from the Minnesota Vikings in 1990, the Atlanta Falcons in 1991, the Cleveland Browns in 1992, and the Indianapolis Colts in 1993.

5. Kickoff (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

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   It is placed on the kicking team's 20-yard line in the current UFL [2] (inherited from the second USFL), [3] the 30-yard line in six-man football and the now-defunct second XFL, 35-yard line in college and the NFL, 40-yard line in American high school football, [a] on the 45-yard line in amateur Canadian football, and the goal line in indoor ...

6. Fair catch kick - Wikipedia

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   The fair catch kick has been present in the NFL rulebook since the league's inception, [14] and also remains in the NFHS rulebook. [20] The fair catch kick is not legal in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) football; the NCAA abolished the fair catch in 1950, but re-added it a year later. When the fair catch returned to the ...

7. List of gridiron football rules - Wikipedia

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   Teams also kick off after scoring touchdowns and field goals. The ball is kicked using a kicking tee from the team's own 35-yard (32 m) line in the NFL and college football (as of the 2011 season). The other team's kick returner tries to catch the ball and advance it as far as possible.