A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player intentionally dropping the ball onto the ground and then kicking it either...
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A drop kick, in various types of football, is dropping the ball and kicking it after it has bounced. A dropkick is an attacking maneuver in professional...
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Doug Flutie (redirect from Drop-Kick Doug)
successfully drop kicked a football for an extra point, something that was not done in a regular-season NFL game since 1941. It was Flutie's first kick attempt...
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Operation Drop Kick was conducted between April and November 1956 by the US Army Chemical Corps to test the practicality of employing mosquitoes to carry...
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Bobby Bare (redirect from Drop-Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life)
during this time included "Alimony" (1975), "The Winner" (1976), and "Drop Kick Me, Jesus (Through the Goalposts of Life)" (an unusual Christian-football...
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Dropkick Murphys (redirect from Drop Kick Murphys)
Up That Dial. That same month it was announced that Al Barr was forced to drop off of the band's 2022 St. Patrick's Day Tour and their 2022 summer tour...
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A drop kick in rugby union is a type of kick that involves someone dropping a ball and then kicking when it hits the ground, in contrast to a punt wherein...
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football and Canadian football. A drop goal is scored by drop kicking the ball (dropping the ball and then kicking it as it rises from the first bounce)...
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The Drop Kick (also known as Glitter in the UK) is a 1927 silent film directed by Millard Webb, adapted from the novel Glitter (1925) by Katherine Brush...
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Rugby league gameplay (redirect from 40/20 kick)
goal line. In some circumstances, the team in attack may opt to kick a one-point drop goal instead of attempting to score a try. Scoring will at least...
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play by a free kick. The team that was scored upon must kick the ball from their own 20-yard line and can punt, drop kick, or place kick the ball. In professional...
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American football (section Kicking)
either case. On a safety kick, the kicking team kicks the ball from their own 20-yard line. They can punt, drop kick or place kick the ball, but a tee may...
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Dropkick (redirect from Claymore Kick)
Dame, used his association with football to identify the move as the "drop-kick" and the press also called it a "flying dropkick". The dropkick in its...
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Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil (also simply known as Kick Buttowski) is an American animated television series created by Sandro Corsaro and produced...
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Drop Kick is an album by saxophonist Steve Coleman and his band Five Elements recorded in 1992 and released by Novus. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow...
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up to the ball and kick it downfield but not into touch (law 21.4 (e)). This is very rarely chosen. They may opt for a drop kick, where the ball starts...
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Field goal range (section Drop kicks)
inconsistent as to whether the kick was by drop kick or place kick. Driscoll also kicked a reported 50-yard drop kick in 1925 (newspaper reports were...
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follow through is with a straight leg and results in the ball moving along the ground. Punt kick Drop kick Bomb kick Squib kick Coaching the Grubber...
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Laws of rugby union (section Kick restarts)
in the opposition's in-goal. A conversion (kick at a goal) is then attempted by either place- or drop-kicking the ball between the H-shaped goal posts and...
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could not be scored from such a drop-kick, giving an early example of an indirect free kick. Other codes that used a free kick to punish an infringement of...
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Glossary of rugby union terms (redirect from Around the corner kick)
free kick. Drop kick A drop kick is when a player kicks the ball from hand and the ball touches the ground between being dropped and kicked. If a drop kick...
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made a fair catch to attempt a free kick from the spot of the catch. The kick must be either a place kick or a drop kick, and if it passes over the crossbar...
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professional cycling team Drop (boxing), a type of punch used in boxing Drop kick, a type of kick in various forms of football and rugby Drop goal, a way of scoring...
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a free kick, which could be taken as a place-kick, drop-kick, punt, or tap kick. It was possible to score a goal from a place-kick or drop-kick. The goal...
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Punt (Australian football) (redirect from Banana kick)
punt kick is a common style of kicking in Australian rules football. It is a kick where the ball is dropped from the players' hands and kicked slightly...
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Penalty (rugby) (redirect from Penalty kick (rugby))
drop kick for touch. A kick at goal. The kick at goal is usually taken off the ground from a sand or plastic tee (though it is possible to drop kick the...
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Avon Park, Florida (section Operation Drop Kick)
Savannah, Georgia earlier in the year. The experiment was part of Operation Drop Kick, a series of military experiments to determine the practicality of employing...
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John Murphy (sanatorium operator) (redirect from Dr. John "Drop Kick" Murphy)
42°30′03.7″N 71°24′53.5″W / 42.501028°N 71.414861°W / 42.501028; -71.414861 John E. "Dropkick" Murphy (May 12, 1912 – October 17, 1977) was an American...
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Rugby union gameplay (section Kicking)
through scoring tries or kicking goals over eighty minutes of playing time. The play is started with one team drop-kicking the ball from the halfway...
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Professional wrestling strikes (redirect from Mule kick)
maneuver is finished, the attacking wrestler can execute either a running kick, knee, drop or many other strikes that first sees them running toward or rebounding...
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