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Fair catch

noun

(American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled.

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"Fair catch" Quotes from Famous Books

... Claflin returned it. Kendall misjudged the ball and it rolled to the Maroon's twelve yards. Milton fell on it there. Kendall and Norton gained two yards each through centre, and Norton punted to Brimfield's forty-five yard line, where Burrage made a fair catch. ...

— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour

... caught by Cole, who no sooner clutched it than he was seized and held by the boys of the white and purple—the colors of the High School. He grasped it firmly, and was allowed a fair catch. ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various

... fair catch," broke in the executive officer incisively. "Any gentleman here has a perfect right to ask the waiter questions about the food supply without taking chances of being subjected ...

— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock

... several instances enormous debts had been liquidated in favor of the recruits. Even commissions in the army of His Majesty had been offered as a bounty. There was success, if the few hundred faces in the ranks could be reckoned as a fair catch, yet the methods of recruiting did not begin to justify the fewness ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... the team, provided of course that the referee sees it, consequently, a beginner must be especially careful not to permit his anxiety to make a good showing to result in being offside when the ball is put in play, interfering with a man about to make a fair catch or in doing many other things which the excitement of ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller