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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 .
The CFL and NFL both implemented major changes to how conversions were attempted starting with their respective 2015 seasons. [15] [16] In the CFL, the line of scrimmage for a kick attempt moved back 20 yards to the 25-yard line (for a 32-yard attempt), while the line of scrimmage for a two-point attempt moved forward two yards to the three ...
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 ...
CFL: 25-yard line for placekick attempts (for a 32-yard attempt), 3-yard line for two-point conversion attempts Amateur Canadian football (all levels): 5-yard line for all attempts Because the goalposts are on the goal line in Canada and the end line in the United States, a CFL kicker is at the same distance from the goalposts as an NFL kicker.
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.
Kick return yards and punt return yards result from voluntary change in possession and most of the others result from involuntary forms of change in possession known as turnovers. Often kick return and punt return statistics are aggregated. and sometimes they are added to yards from scrimmage to yield all-purpose yards. When kick return yards ...
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).
The total of rushing yards and receiving yards is known as yards from scrimmage. [1] This definition of yardage differs from total offense which gives credit for passing yardage to the person throwing the football rather than receiving the football. This is an important statistic for running backs that contribute significantly to the passing ...