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field and goal
It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.
Jardine instructed his fast bowlers, most notably Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, to bowl at the bodies of the Australian batsmen, with the goal of forcing them to defend their bodies with their bats, thus providing easy catches to a stacked leg-side field.
A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play.
At the same time, computer scientists working in the field of Artificial Intelligence have pursued the goal of creating digital computer programs that can simulate or embody consciousness.
That set up the NFL championship match between the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams a week later in Cleveland, a game the Browns won 30-28 on a last-minute Groza field goal.
Entering the fourth quarter, the Browns held a 10-3 advantage, but the Giants tied it then won it with two minutes left on a 49-yard field goal by Pat Summerall under snowy conditions.
Mare was supposed to bring a stronger leg to the team, but has disappointed with the fourth worst average field goal percentage of his 15-year career.
The Panthers ended up winning 12-9 on a John Kasay field goal.
One of the most notable of these returns came on November 12, 2006, when he returned a missed field goal for a 108-yard touchdown.
* A player is considered down when any part of his body other than the feet or hands touches the ground or when the ball carrier is tackled or otherwise falls and loses possession of the ball as he contacts the ground with any part of his body, with the sole exception of the holder for field goal and extra point attempts.
Starting with the third overtime, a one point PAT field goal after a touchdown is no longer allowed, forcing teams to attempt a two-point conversion after a touchdown.
If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal ( see below ), depending on their position on the field.
* If the offence scores a field goal, the scoring team must kickoff from their own 35-yard line.
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.
Punts may not score a field goal, even if one should travel through the uprights.
On punts and field goal attempts ( but not kickoffs ), members of the kicking team, other than the kicker and any teammates who are onside ( behind the kicker at the time of the kick ), may not approach within five yards of the ball until it has been touched by the receiving team.
If they make what would normally be a field goal, they score one point ; what would normally be a touchdown scores two points ( a " two-point conversion ").
; Single: Scored when the ball becomes dead in the possession of a team in its own goal area, or when the ball touches or crosses the dead-line, or side-line-in-goal, and touches the ground, a player, or some object beyond these lines as a result of the ball having been kicked from the field of play into the goal area by the scoring team.
* Following a field goal, the non-scoring team may choose for play to resume either with a kickoff as above, or by scrimmaging the ball from its own 35-yard line.
* Following a single or rouge, play resumes with the non-scoring team scrimmaging from its own 35-yard line, unless the single is awarded on a missed field goal, in which case the non-scoring team scrimmages from either the 35-yard line or the yard line from which the field goal was attempted, whichever is greater.

field and scores
If any part of the ball reaches any part of the imaginary vertical plane transected by this line while in-bounds and in possession of a player whose team is striving toward that end of the field, this is considered a touchdown and scores six points for the team whose player has advanced the ball to, or recovered the ball in, this position.
The score is still updated by hand today from behind the wall ( except the National League scores which need to be changed out on the field ).
There are no goal posts, and a player scores simply by hitting the ball out of either end of the field.
The large electronic scoreboard in right-center field, featuring both teams ' lineups and scores of other baseball games, was the first of its kind.
Before being approved for breeding, dogs and bitches must pass Hunt Test with minimum scores of their performance tests of its field, tracking and water skills.
Whichever team scores first -- either through a field goal or through a touchdown, or far more rarely a safety -- wins the game and the game ends.
" The hope was that the rules changes would " level the playing field ", but in 2004 Sandow reported that the Pulitzer board's nomination materials sent " a pretty clear message classical works with notated scores are still our first priority.
The public school system consist of four high schools and five elementary schools that consistently rank at the top of the state in test scores and on the athletic field.
As the music and motion halts, the field announcer summons the corps ' commanding officers to center front, recognitions are made, and lastly the scores ( if this was a judged contest ) are announced.
During the 1991 Intercontinental Cup final, Jugović, the youngest regular of our club, scores two goals at National Stadium and a brilliant play over the entire field brought him later the Toyota prize, which was intended for the best player of match.
" When a player scores a field goal in the opponent ’ s basket, it shall count two points for the opponent regardless of the location on the playing court from where it was released.
A free throw scores the same way as a field goal, except that it is taken unopposed from the free-throw line after a foul.
A field goal scores 3 points in both versions of the sport.
A field goal in arena football scores three points, unless it is drop kicked, in which case it scores four points.
In rugby union, a goal scored from the field either as a drop kick during normal play or a place kick after a foul scores three points.
In rugby league, a goal scored from the field as a drop kick scores one point, and a goal from a place kick after a foul scores two points.
In both field hockey and ice hockey, a hat trick occurs when a player scores three goals in a single match.
The tournament, jointly run by Jones and Clifford Roberts, made many important innovations which became the norm elsewhere, such as gallery ropes to control the flow of the large crowds, many scoreboards around the course, the use of red / green numbers on those scoreboards to denote under / over par scores, an international field of top players, high-caliber television coverage, and week-long admission passes for patrons, which became extremely hard to obtain.
The fresco is an illusion with the central field apparently open to the sky and scores of figures seen ' al di sotto in su ' apparently coming into the room itself or floating above it.

field and two
`` The established pattern of relative calm in the field of race relations has continued in all areas '', reported this group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South Floridians, William D. Singer and John B. Turner of Miami.
Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.
auto, the Sport-King, in two grades -- field and special ( less than $45 and just over $45, respectively ).
New to the field is a duplex type butyrate laminate in which the two sheets of the laminate are of different color.
After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.
On his side of the road there were two farm hands, well back in a field, leaning against a plow.
Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.
-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.
Phil Rossoff and two other Riverside players did not go out on the field when the fighting started.
The sum, difference, product and quotient of two algebraic numbers is again algebraic ( this fact can be demonstrated using the resultant ), and the algebraic numbers therefore form a field, sometimes denoted by A ( which may also denote the adele ring ) or < span style =" text-decoration: overline ;"> Q </ span >.
This is an example of renormalization in quantum field theory — the field theory being necessary because the number of particles changes from one to two and back again.
Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.
The initial two categories here were devised by early neurologists working in the field, namely Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke.
Afghans with two captured artillery field guns in Jaji, 1984.
Modern field artillery can also be split into two other categories: towed and self-propelled.
An alternating magnetic field is applied at the atomizer ( graphite furnace ) to split the absorption line into three components, the π component, which remains at the same position as the original absorption line, and two σ components, which are moved to higher and lower wavelengths, respectively ( see Zeeman Effect ).
This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.
From 1969-1993, home field advantage alternated between the two divisions, and from 1995-1997 home field advantage was predetermined before the season.
In the field of antennas, two different methods of expressing relative bandwidth are used for narrowband and wideband antennas.
To the south the Dutch Guards, under the command of Colonel Wertmüller, came forward with their two field guns to seize the hamlet of Franquenée.
This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter plane and systems used to control the countdown and launch of the Army's Pershing missile.

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