Single (football)

Under Football Canada rules, if a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without touching the ground or a player, this is also a touchback;[4] in the CFL, this scores a single.

[4] Until the 1970s, a doink—a field goal kick that hits an upright or the crossbar but does not carom through the goal—was a live ball, and thus a doink that bounced into the end zone and was not returned could score a single.

A 2005 proposal to reduce scenarios resulting in a single on missed field goal attempts was also rejected.

Other proposals would have the rouge scored only on kicks scrimmaged from beyond a certain point or are otherwise deemed 'returnable', having touched the end zone or a return team player without being advanced back into the field of play.

[8] In the CFL and its predecessor leagues, the most rouges ever scored by one kicker in a game is 11, by Ben Simpson of the Hamilton Tigers against the Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers on October 29, 1910.

[14]) The concept of the rouge dates back to several public school sports played in England from the early 19th century.