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touch-in-goal
Cdn Football, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a play in which the team receiving a punt behind its own goal line is unable or unwilling to carry the ball back into the field of play, thus conceding a point to the opposition.
See: rouge ((n.))
Quotations
1964
The above article [1895] mentions the only peculiarly Canadian feature of football which endures namely the single point, either the "rouge" or the "touch in goal."