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(American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone

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This means that touch sensitive panels, when connected via HDMI or USB to the ClickShare Base Unit, offer the touchback functionality.
The kicker could kick the ball that enters the end zone and is not returned; this is referred to as a touchback. The outcome of this play gives the opponent the ball on the 20-yard line.
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Birmingham survived a nervous finale, as Scotland should have scored in the final minute but he gave Stuart Parnaby a grateful clearance after miscontrolling Febian Brandy's touchback following a brave block from Taylor.
Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) with eight other lawmakers, includes a "touchback provision" that would require immigrants to return briefly to their home countries before re-entering to apply for permanent legal residency.
Oh yes, and he can kick too, as he demonstrated against the Buffalo Bills last year, booming a 41-yard punt into the endzone for a touchback.
Schneider, Emerson and Stack all had at least one kickoff in the public showcase at Autzen, but Emerson had the only touchback.
Last year marked the first Discover Beauty Award winner, TouchBack by ColorMark, which catapulted the brand to a higher level of recognition and also gave them an added tool to keep their product in the spotlight.
If it goes into the end zone, it is a touchback and comes out to the 20.
You can tell that duty remains new to him after barely doing it in college, and Miller occasionally will force the issue and bring a ball out of the end zone that he probably should take for a touchback. Some of that might be borne out of frustration from the limited opportunities as a wideout.
Writer-director Don Handfield fails to score with "Touchback," a lightweight and overlong feel-good drama that plays like a mashup of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Friday Night Lights." Some viewers, particularly football fans, may be intrigued by the plot, which pivots on the miraculous second chance given to a former high-school quarterback 20 years after a knee injury shattered his dreams of gridiron glory.
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After a monstrous drive from their own 34 that required 16 plays and took roughly eight minutes off the clock, Gavin tried a tricky jump pass from the wildcat formation on 3rd-and-goal from the 1 that Daigle amazingly sniffed out and intercepted in the end zone for a touchback.