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The rouge

In Canadian football, a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone. It is also a single if the kick travels through the end zone or goes out of bounds in the end zone without being touched, except on a kickoff. After conceding a single, the receiving team is awarded possession of the ball at the 35-yard line of its own end of the field.

Singles are not awarded in the following situations:

if a ball is downed in the end zone after being intercepted in the end zone

if a ball is fumbled outside the end zone

if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)

when a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without being touched

In all these cases the defending team is awarded possession of the ball at the 25-yard line.

In the official rules, the single point is also called a rouge, French for "red", and the origin is unclear. One theory is that a red flag was used to signal the score in the game's early days. Another is that, because the conceding team had a point deducted from its score on the play in earlier days, the tally was called a "red point".

However, the concept of the 'rouge' dates back to several public school sports played in England from the early 19th century. In field hockey played at Rossall School, and the Eton Field Game, both of which are still played today, a 'rouge' can be scored after the ball has gone into the local equivalent of the 'end zone' after striking another player. The Sheffield Rules, a 19th-century code of football, also utilized the rouge as a secondary scoring method. The behind is a similar concept used in Australian rules football (with the exception that behinds also count even if the ball hits the posts), as is the point in Gaelic football.

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