What is End zone?
[[File:120107-LA-USC-UCLA05-TDMcKnight.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A player rushes into the red-painted end zone, scoring a [[touchdown]] during a [[American football|college football game]].]] The '''end zone''' refers to the [[Goal (sport)|scoring area]] on the field, according to [[gridiron football|gridiron-based codes of football]]. It is the area between the [[end line]] and [[Goal line (gridiron football)|goal line]] bounded by the [[sidelines]]. There are two end zones. Each one is on an opposite side of the field. It is bordered on all sides by a white line indicating its beginning and end points. Usually padded orange square markers are placed at each of the four corners as a visual aid. Canadian rule books use the terms ''goal area'' and ''dead line'' instead of ''end zone'' and ''end line'' respectively. But the latter terms are the more common in [[Canadian English]]. In American football the end zone is 10 yards deep.<ref>Howie Long; John Czarnecki, ''Football For Dummies'' (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2013), p. 22</ref> Canadian football end zones are 20 yards; 10 yards deeper than those in American football.<ref>''The Sports Book'' (New York: DK Publishing, 2013), p. 119</ref> Sports like [[association football]] and [[ice hockey]] require the puck or ball to pass completely over the goal line to count as a score. Canadian and American football merely need the nose of the ball to break the vertical plane of the outer edge of the goal line.<ref>Thomas W. Hanlon; Human Kinetics (Organization), ''The Sports Rules Book'', 3rd Edition (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2009), pp. 112–113</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{sport-stub}} [[Category:American football]] [[Category:Canadian football]]