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field goal

noun

Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar.
Basketball. a goal made while the ball is in play.

field goal

basketball a goal scored while the ball is in normal play rather than from a free throw
American football a score of three points made by kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar

First recorded in 1890–95

But it would all come down to a 47-yard field goal attempt by Norwood.

The Giants won 20-19 as the Bills missed a 48-yard field goal as the clock ran out.

Summerall came in and kicked a 49-yard field goal to win the game … in the midst of a driving snow storm.

He should have shifted the blame from his field goal kicker to himself.

In college, a 57-yard field goal is basically giving the other side a chance to return a kickoff.

Victor Kennard won a game against Yale for Harvard with a leftfooted field goal.

The principal scores in football are the "touchdown" and the "field goal."

From the fifteen yards Kendall tried a field-goal and missed narrowly and the second put the ball in play on the twenty yards.

The second team managed a field-goal that afternoon, but the first scored three touchdowns and for once showed plenty of punch.

Theyll get Pope out of the way, and therell be a field goal wanted, just as there was Wednesday, and Mulford will send me in!

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