Broadly, these include three main categories: forwards, whose main task is to score goals ; defenders, who specialise in preventing their opponents from scoring ; and midfielders, who dispossess the opposition and keep possession of the ball to pass it to the forwards ; players in these positions are referred to as outfield players, to discern them from the single goalkeeper.

If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.

This is different from a single ( see below ) in that the team scored against begins with possession of the ball.

However, in the extensive documents of the Templar inquisition there was never a single mention of anything like a Grail relic, let alone its possession by the Templars, nor is there any evidence that a Templar wrote a Grail Romance.

The Redskins increased their lead to 28 – 10 on their next possession with a 50-yard touchdown pass from Williams to Sanders, making him the first player in Super Bowl history to catch 2 touchdowns in a single quarter.

If so, the episodes of mutilation and sexual abuse would form a single story, in which Set assaults Horus and loses semen to him, Horus retaliates and impregnates Set, and Set comes into possession of Horus ' Eye when it appears on Set's head.

The single species in the Californian genus Darlingtonia is popularly known as the cobra plant, due to its possession of an inflated " lid " with elegant false-exits, and a forked " tongue ", which serves to ferry ants and other prey to the entrance of the pitcher.

It later became a single residence but had been abandoned for five years when the current owners took possession and began reclaiming and restoring the historic facility.

After pleading insanity in response to drugs charges --- he was arrested for possession of a single marijuana joint --- Roky Erickson was committed to a mental hospital in 1969. allmusic. com's Jason Ankeny has written that the treatments Erickson received during his three-and-a-half-year may have contributed to his subsequent mental troubles.

On September 10, 1974, Brock stole two bases, tying Maury Wills ' mark of 104 with a first inning steal of second base and then capturing sole possession of the single season record with another swipe of second in the seventh inning.

On some single track railways in the UK, particularly those with low usage, it is common to use token systems that rely on the train driver's physical possession of a unique token as authority to occupy the line, normally in addition to fixed signals.

His 127 runs scored gave him sole possession of the Mets ' single season franchise mark.

He single handedly defeats Mister X who is in possession of the Spear of Odin.

Before the two-platoon game became standard in the 1940s, a single platoon game was the norm, where the same players played both offense and defense, each player continuing to hold a position on the field no matter which side had possession of the ball.

A single local family were in possession of the lordship of Hollingworth for more than 700 years and were styled ' Hollingworth of Hollingworth ' or De Hollyngworth ( Holynworth ).

The entire Act consists of a single effective section, which reads, " As from the date of the passing of this Act, the Island of Rockall ( of which possession was formally taken in the name of Her Majesty on 18th September 1955 in pursuance of a Royal Warrant dated 14th September 1955 addressed to the Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Vidal ) shall be incorporated into that part of the United Kingdom known as Scotland and shall form part of the District of Harris in the County of Inverness, and the law of Scotland shall apply accordingly.

Defendants already convicted of two or more " strike " charges arising from one single case potentially years in the past, even if the defendant was a juvenile over 16 at the time, can be and have been charged and convicted with a third strike for any felony or any offense that could be charged as a felony ( including " felony petty theft " or possession of a controlled substance prior to Proposition 36 ( see below )) and given 25 years to life.

Instead, rather than rely on a single engine, reliance is placed on having a single physical object available for the single track section and ruling that only if an engine driver is in physical possession of that object, is he permitted to traverse the single line section.

Bao Zheng stopped the practice and left without a single inkstone in his possession once his tenure was over.

Their single, " Great Rebirth ," climbed the music charts quickly, but was suddenly halted from progressing due to criminal investigation of Tiger JK for possession and dealing of narcotics in Korea during 1999.

Charles of Viana arrived in 1459 to take possession of both the island and the castle, as he had agreed with his father King John II of Aragon, even though finally the king granted not the lordship nor the Bellver Castle.

He paid John 2000 marks for the lordship of the Peak, but the Crown retained possession of Bolsover and Peveril Castles.

The lordship of East Witton, with the site of the abbey, was granted by Henry VIII to Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and Margaret, his wife, the king's niece, and after passing through various hands, the property came into the possession of the Bruce family, one of whom was created Earl of Ailesbury in 1805.

The lordship was created as a Papal possession following the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 – 71.

John granted him all that he might conquer from the Welsh in Radnorshire, gave him lordship over Limerick in Ireland ( save for the city itself ), possession of Glamorgan castle, and the Lordship of Gower with its several castles.

The lordship remained in the possession of the Brienne Dukes of Athens even after their expulsion from Athens in 1311, and those Dukes continued to be recognized there.

Donnchadh remained firmly in possession of his Argyll lordship.

His brother Arthur was one of the translators the King James Bible appointed in 1604 — the year that the reversion of Great Stanmore Manor in Middlesex was granted to Lake although it seems that he never took possession for the lordship remained in the name of the Burnell family until his son Thomas assumed possession in 1631.

King John had given or recognised Donnchadh's possession of this territory, and that of Donnchadh's nephew Alaxandair ( Alexander ), as a reward for his help ; similarly, John had given Donnchadh's cousins Ailean and Tómas, sons of Lochlann, a huge lordship equivalent to 140 knight's fees that included most of northern County Antrim and County Londonderry, the reward for use of their soldiers and galleys.

He made an important agreement in 1635 for the purchase from James Campbell, Lord Cantire, of the lordship of Cantire, or Kintyre, of which ' the MacDonnells had been dispossessed in 1600 by Argyll ; but his possession was successfully opposed by Lord Lorne Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll.

A person may be in possession of only three abalone at any given time.

Soon after acquiring the undisputed possession of the Roman empire, Theodosius died at Milan in 395, and two years later ( April 4, 397 ) Ambrose also died.

In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

Nor was it the loss of the royal treasury at Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours writes Clovis took into his possession.

In 371 BC at a Panhellenic congress of the Lacedaemonian allies, he voted in support of the Athenians ' claim and joined other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis.

It was at Anah that the emperor Julian met the first opposition on his disastrous expedition against Persia ( 363 ), when he got possession of the place and transported the people ; and there that Ziyad and Shureih with the advanced guard of Ali's army were refused passage across the Euphrates ( 36 / 657 ) to join Ali in Mesopotamia ( Tabari i. 3261 ).

* 1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.

There is an obligation to administer it to the sick who, when they were in possession of their faculties, at least implicitly asked for it.

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

They arrive at the borders of Canaan and send spies into the land, but on hearing the spies ' report the Israelites refuse to take possession of Canaan and God condemns them to death in the wilderness until a new generation can grow up and carry out the task.

The blastoids, which included the Pentreinitidae and Codasteridae and superficially resembled crinoids in the possession of long stalks attached to the seabed, attain their maximum development at this time.

The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced transport of gold and silver, and thus lowered the risks ; it made loaning gold or silver at interest easier, since the specie ( gold or silver ) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note ; and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed forms.

Undesired activities at such times may include assembly in the streets, violation of curfew, or possession of firearms.

The Latin Rite Patriarchs of Lisbon and Venice, while in practice always made cardinals at the consistory after they take possession of their sees, are made cardinal priests, not cardinal bishops.

Amongst the activities of the CPS were commissioning Gallup polls which showed the levels of support for British possession of nuclear weapons, providing speakers at public meetings, highlighting the left-wing affiliations of leading CND figures and mounting counter-demonstrations against CND.

If a fumbled ball goes out of bounds, the team whose player last touched it is awarded possession at the spot where it went out of bounds.

A coin toss is held to determine which team will take possession first ; the first team scrimmages the ball at the opponent's 35-yard line and advances through a series of downs until it scores or loses possession.

However, he can only take full possession of one other mind at a time, and must strictly be within that person's physical presence.

Other possibilities are that he was merely opposed to Christians who lived Jewishly, or deny that docetism threatened the church, or that his critical remarks were directed at an Ebionite or Cerinthian possessionist Christology, where God descended and took possession of Jesus's body.

The Italian possession of maritime areas previously claimed by Abyssinia / Ethiopia was formalized in 1889 with the signing of the Treaty of Wuchale with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia ( r. 1889 – 1913 ) after the defeat of Italy by Ethiopia at the battle of Adua where Italy launched an effort to expand its possessions from Eritrea into the more fertile Abyssinian hinterland.

In August 1691 the Austrians under Louis of Baden regained the advantage by heavily defeating the Turks at the Battle of Slankamen on the Danube, securing Habsburg possession of Hungary and Transylvania.

* gang tackle – when the player in possession is tackled by more than one opponent at the same time.

Denmark retained possession of the Faroes at the Peace of Kiel in 1814, but lost continental Norway.