In American and Canadian football, the convert, conversion, try, extra point, point after touchdown, point-after try or PAT is the act of lining up to attempt a one-point field goal, immediately following a touchdown. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with In accordance with the Manual of Style (see) Canadian English is used throughout this article (see Canadian_English#Spelling) A field goal (formerly "goal from the field" in US football and Canadian football is a goal that may be scored during general play ("from A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American and Canadian football. If the kick goes through the uprights, the team gets an additional point for their touchdown, bringing their total for that score from six points to seven. A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American and Canadian football.
The extra point is among the oldest parts of the game of gridiron football and dates to its soccer roots. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered In its earliest days, scoring a touchdown was not the primary objective but a means of getting a free kick at the goal (hence why the name "try," more commonly associated with rugby today, is still in American football rule books), and thus while a field goal would be 5 points, a touchdown would only be one point and the conversion would be worth four (for a total of five). Rugby football (usually just " rugby " may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of Football developed at Rugby School By the start of the 20th century, touchdowns had become more important and the roles of touchdown and kick were reversed. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on By this time the point value for the after-touchdown kick had reduced to its current one-point value while the touchdown was now worth five. (This later increased to six points in American football in 1912 and in Canadian football in 1956. )
If two extra points are needed or desired, a two-point conversion (touchdown conversion) try may be attempted by running or passing from scrimmage instead of the extra point kick. American and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion instead of an Extra point immediately after it scores a Touchdown A successful touchdown conversion brings the score's total to eight.
In the National Football League, the scrimmage for point after touchdown takes place from the two-yard line. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. In American high school and college football, it is from the three-yard line. In Canadian football it is from the five-yard line. The game clock does not run during an extra-point attempt, except for some rare circumstances at the high-school level.
In the NFL and American high school football (in most states), the play is over once either the attempt fails or the defense takes possession. In many other levels of football, including the Canadian Football League and American college football, the play continues until the ball is otherwise dead. The Canadian Football League (CFL ( Ligue canadienne de football (LCF in College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies This allows the defense to recover the ball to return it to the opponent's end zone for two points. Two states, Texas and Massachusetts, play high school football under NCAA rules and thus allow the defense to score on an extra point attempt. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
In the NFL, the attempt for extra point(s) is required after a touchdown scored during the regulation (i. e. , not overtime), because points are used for some tiebreakers in the standings. Rarely, this can result in such an attempt having to be made at the end of the game when it cannot change the outcome of the game. If the game is in sudden death overtime, the extra-point attempt is omitted if the winning score is a touchdown. Sudden death (or a sudden death round) is a way of providing a winner for a Contest or Game (typically a Sport) which would otherwise In American high school and college football, it's likewise omitted following a touchdown on the game's final play if six points were enough to win or if the scoring team was already ahead.
The World Football League and XFL eliminated the extra-point kick in their short lives and only allowed a one-point scrimmage play, although the XFL later implemented a variable system that allowed increasing point values for increasing the distance to the end zone on the attempt for its playoffs. The World Football League was an American football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. The XFL was a professional American football league that played for one season in 2001
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extra point
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- (American football) after a touchdown, an attempt to kick the ball through the goal posts to gain another point.
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