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Definition of Defending team

1. Noun. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring. "His teams are always good on defense"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defending Team

Literary usage of Defending team

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"If committed by the original offender j^of the defending team) the attacking ... If committed by the player of the attacking team, the defending team is ..."

2. Football for the Spectator by Walter Camp (1911)
"GENERAL PLAN OF PLAY gives the defending team the right unmolested to bring the ball out a certain distance and have a free kick down the field or a ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"But if the ball has been last touched by one of the defending team before crossing the goal-line, a player of the attacking team shall have a free hit from ..."

4. Games & Dances: A Selected Collection of Games, Song-games and Dances by William Albin Stecher (1912)
"A very strenuous game for the higher grades, and a game in which the defending team seldom lasts long, is the regular game of dodgeball, played with two ..."

5. Inside Football by Frank W. Cavanaugh (1919)
"This attitude once acquired by the defending team cracks the fighting spirit, and exposes the man who is trying to play football with the idea of ..."

6. American Football by Charles Dudley Daly (1921)
"If the defending team can kick as far as the offensive team, it is apparent that the superior yardage can be obtained by a certain amount of rushing—• say ..."

7. State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 by S Buhlungu (2007)
"... to obstruct opposition from being able to fairly contest for possession. This is illegal and results in a penalty being awarded to a defending team. ..."

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