Goal (sport) are required to hold the ball in. Similarly, in ice hockey, scoring a goal is similar to scoring a goal in football. The puck must be put completely over the goal line between the posts and under the bar either off an offensive player's stick or off any part of a defensive player's body. The puck may not be kicked, batted, or thrown into the goal, though a goal may be awarded if the puck is inadvertently deflected off an offensive player's skate or body into the goal. The goal structure is a frame tall and wide with a net
American football field Goal posts are padded at the base, and orange ribbons are normally placed at the tip of each upright. According to the high school rulebook recommendations, the field should be angled at approximately 1.2° (rising inch per foot, or 1 in 48) upward from each sideline to the center of the field so that the center is higher than the sidelines. American football field American football games are played on a rectangular "Field of Play" that measures long between goal lines, and () wide. In addition, there are end zones extending another past the goal lines to the "end lines",