The Touchdown reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Touchdown

The primary method of scoring in American Football in which the ball carrier causes the football to break the plane of the end zone and thus earn 6 points for his team.

A touchdown is analogous to a Rugby try, with the major difference being that for a try the football has to be place on the ground.

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