There was almost another in the first half, but the whistle cut the play short, and the nearest the military lads had been to scoring was when they tried for a field goal, and failed, because Sid broke through and blocked the kick.
But then Newkirk took a brace, and held against the rushing tactics of her rival, so that, after getting the ball to within ten yards of the goal line, Randall tried for a field goal, and lost because the pigskin struck the post.
But there was no danger of that in the first half, when Randall got another touchdown and goal, and ended up with a field goal.
They wanted at least one touchdown, or a field goal, and Randall was determined they should have neither.
This of course does not apply to a field goal, which may be attempted at any time while the ball is in possession of the team and which counts three.
A great many games are won by a good drop kicker making a field goal at a critical time, and such a man is of the highest value to a team.
It is then customary for one of the players who has had practice in drop kicking to attempt to kick what is called a "goal from the field" or "field goal.
This play counts less than a touchdown in the score, counting but three points, while a touchdown counts five, but many a game has been won by a field goal.
Maybe we can try for a field goal, but the chances are against it if the wind blows.
Phil, in a flash, determined for a field goal trial.
Then Pinkey Davenport dropped back for a trial for a field goal, and made it.
There might have been a try for a field goal, but Phil decided there was no chance for it, whereas bucking the line was almost a sure thing.
They'll get Pope out of the way, and there'll be a field goal wanted, just as there was Wednesday, and Mulford will send me in!
The ball was in front of High School's goal, and from the seventeen yards a field goal was an easy proposition if the opponents could be held away from the kicker.
Well, suppose Pope does go out, and there's a chance for a field goal, as there's likely to be.
Again they had the pigskin because of the penalty inflicted on a too eager Kentfield player, and they made a desperate try for a field goal, but it fell short.
And, though the scrub did manage to get a field goal, it was not to the discredit of the Varsity.
Right up the field from her own thirty-five yard line did Dick's men carry the pigskin, until on Blue Hill's twenty yard mark the young millionaire decided for a try for a field goal.
So determined were the Harvard team to make a touchdown that they scorned to try a field goal, and depended on a forward pass to make the necessary distance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "field goal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
