Touchback

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A touchback in American football occurs when the ball flies or rolls into the end zone during a kickoff or a punt , or flies over the end zone and is not carried out of the end zone by the opposing team.

An interception in one's own end zone is a touchback and no safety if the ball carrier does not run out of the end zone and the play ends in it . Another special case that is counted as touchback is a fumble in which the player loses the ball in front of the opposing end zone, but then hits the pylon or leaves the field in the end zone.

Then possession changes and the next play begins at the 20- yard line of the new attacking team. In the National Football League , the next attempt since the 2016 season begins at the 25-yard line on a trial basis, provided the touchback occurs after a kickoff. After a punt, he starts at the 20-yard line as before.

source

  • Stephan Faust: American Football: the official rules; Interesting facts from A to Z. Falken Verlag, Niedernhausen 1996, ISBN 3-8068-1673-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. Worst rule in football robs Rams of touchdown, possession . ( yahoo.com [accessed October 11, 2017]).
  2. ^ Adam Stites: NFL bumps touchbacks to 25-yard line for 1-year trial. March 22, 2016, accessed March 23, 2016 .