A touchdown is a scoring play in gridiron football. Scoring a touchdown grants the team that scored it 6 points. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team
A player from Texas High School crosses the goal line with the ball during a game against Highland Park High School to score a rushing touchdown worth six points.
Terry McLaurin (left) of the Washington Commanders catches a pass while standing in the end zone during a 2021 game at Lincoln Financial Field to score a receiving touchdown worth six points.
Official Pete Morelli signals a touchdown by raising both arms above his head during an NFL game in 2006.
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with
Touchdown
…II teams only during the quarterfinals, semifinals, and championship game, and Division III teams only during the semifinals and championship game. In American football and Canadian football, a touchdown is worth six points and is followed by an extra point or two-point conversion attempt. To score a touchdown, one…
Larry Fitzgerald (in blue) catches a pass while Cortland Finnegan (in red) plays defense at the 2009 Pro Bowl.
Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", in 1878 when Camp was captain of Yale University's football team
The dangers associated with the sport depicted in a 1908 cartoon by William Charles Morris
A quarterback for the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in Germany under center and ready to take the snap