extra point
Noun
Meaning
in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown
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A 10 yard touchdown pass to John Taylor, and the 49ers lead by three, and the extra point will put the nail in the Cincinnati coffin.
Although Mann missed the extra point attempt, the Raiders put the game out of reach, 32–7.
Burnett and Baker teamed on a 52-yard touchdown play in the third quarter as the lead grew to 49-7 after Dean’s seventh extra point.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Arkansas and Auburn combined to produce a botched extra point, a kicker with two shots at…
But in fact, there is a simpler method available in the locally compact case; the one-point compactification will embed X in a compact Hausdorff space a(X) with just one extra point.
About having to move back 13 yards and kick a 33-yard extra point in the NFL for a second straight season, which has led to a greatly reduced percentage of extra-point conversions, Reveiz said, “I’m glad they’re doing it now and not when I was playing.