Ok so the team playing offense has 4 chances to go 5 yards. Each chance is called a down. So a 1st down means they completed their first chance.
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there are 4 downs in football.
Flag football is similar to American football is almost every way except the tackling. For example, a down in flag football is the same as it is in American football - ten yards.
There are about 70 football fields' worth of trees cut down every minute, so in a day, roughly 100,800 football fields of trees are cut down.
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One play is one down.
no it is a knee that is considered a down.
It goes to the second down
when tackled by defense
3rd
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A wrist being down does not constitute a player being down. The rule stands the same in HS, college or NFL football.