boundary corner

Noun

boundary corner (plural boundary corners)

1. A defensive position, responsible for covering the deep half of the field on the boundary side.
   • The field corner and boundary corner line up on number 1 strong and number 1 weak, respectively.2000, Dick tomey, Rich Ellerson, Larry MacDuff, and Johnnie Lynn, “Swarming the Offense”, in American Football Coaches Association, editor, Defensive Football Strategies, page 80
   • If Cover 4 is played with the strong safety in a cloud position and the boundary corner as the deep- one-half defender, the boundary corner has similar alignment and responsibility as in Cover 5.2008, Ron Vanderlinden, Football's Eagle & Stack Defenses, page 34
2. The corner where two boundary lines meet.
   • The traditional method of searching for a boundary corner is with the circle, or spiral, search, which has been recommended by (government) for some time.2008, Donald A. Wilson, Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation, page 35
   • For example in Fig. 7.7, the total record length is 160.00 chains and the record distance to the boundary corner is 80.00 chains.2014, Paul Gay, Practical Boundary Surveying: Legal and Technical Principles, page 108