What is Touchdown?
[[Image:Vince Young scores a touchdown in the 2005 Big 12 Championship Game.JPG|right|thumb|200px|[[Texas Longhorn]] [[quarterback]] [[Vince Young]] (center top of picture), rushing for a touchdown.]] A '''touchdown''' is a common way of [[Score|scoring]] in [[American football|American]] and [[Canadian football]]. A team gets a touchdown by the person with the ball running across the line of the goal, or catching the ball while past the line of the goal. In American and Canadian football, a touchdown gives the team 6 points. The team also gets a chance to score 1 or 2 more points in what is called an extra point. ==Related pages== * [[Try]] {{sport-stub}} [[Category:American football]] [[Category:Canadian football]] [[Category:Sports words]]