The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
The ball is put down by a player behind his own goal line when the ball has been put across the goal line by an opponent. Can happen for instance in kick offs, when the kick lands in the end zone and the player returning the kick has no chance to exit the end zone. Does not count as a safety. Takalaiton (Pinomaa)
(American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone
When the ball is kicked or punted into an opponent's end zone. The ball is whistled dead and the opposing team takes possession on its own 20-yard line.
A touchback occurs when the defensive team gains possession of the ball in their own end zone on the same play in which the offensive team caused the ball to cross the goal line.
When a ball is dead on or behind a team's own goal line, provided the impetus came from an opponent and provided it is not a touchdown or a missed field goal.
the act of downing the ball behind one's own goal line after the ball had been propelled over the goal by the opposing team. After a touchback, the team that downed it gets the ball at their own 20-yard line.
when a player who gains possession of a ball in his own end zone kneels to the ground and automatically starts the next play at his own 20-yard line; also awarded if his opponent kicks the ball across the end line.
if a kick or punt causes the ball to go out of play over the defenses goal line, then the defense restart play from their own 20-yard line
If the ball falls into a team's end zone and bounces without being caught, a member of that team touches the end zone with the ball without first being outside the end zone, or an intercepting player is tackled before being outside his end zone, it is said to be a touchback and that team starts from its own 20 yard line. In college football, if a pylon (the short red sticks at the corners of the end zone) is touched with the football, that end zone's team gets a touchback.
A condition where a ball is ruled to be dead in an end zone. If a kickoff or punt travels into the end zone untouched, the result is a touchback, and the receiving team gets possession of the ball at it's own 20 yard line.
a situation in which the ball is kicked through the end zoned or downed in the receiving teamâ€(tm)s end zone. Play restarts on the receiving teamâ€(tm)s 20-yard line.
A play that results in the ball being placed on the 20-yard line. Usually a result of the punter kicking the ball into the end zone, but can also occur if a fumbled ball is knocked out of the end zone by the defense.
In American football, a touchback is a play that occurs when the ball crosses into or through the end zone not in control of the team which put it into play.