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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
upfield

1951, from up (adv.) + field (n.).

Wiktionary
upfield

a. 1 (context sports English) Away from the defending team's end of the playing field 2 (context chemistry English) Describing an NMR resonance at a lower frequency to that of a reference signal adv. (context sports English) Away from the defending team's end of the playing field

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upfield

adj. away from the defending teams's end of the playing field

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Upfield

Upfield is a word with several meanings:

  • Upfield, Victoria, an outer northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia
    • Upfield railway station
    • Upfield railway line
    • Upfield bike path
  • Arthur Upfield, a detective novelist

Usage examples of "upfield".

Marcus Mabry on the eighteen, zigs one way back the other, cuts upfield, has some room and is tackled at the thirty-yard line, where the Spartans will attempt to generate some offense for the first time tonight.

The snap, a quick draw to Mabry, who hits hard, spins, turns upfield to the thirty, the twenty, and out of bounds at the East Pike sixteen!

I read the option, faked to Chenault, faked the pitch to Hubcap, cut upfield for eleven yards.

When he turned upfield, the offensive line released and sprinted forward, looking for someone to level.

About sixtyeight yards upfield the kicker raised his right arm, gave a little hop, and began to move toward the ball.

The ball went through his hands, a sure six, and he stood on our 45yard line just a bit stunned, his hands parted, a tall kid with bony wrists, looking upfield to the spot in time and space he would have been occupying that very second if only he had caught the football.

Harry, pointing to a large patch of tents upfield, where the Bulgarian flag - white, green, and red - was fluttering in the breeze.

He ran unobstructed all the way to the Viking ten, where, inexplicably, the ball squirted loose from his arms and dribbled back upfield for a few yards, where a pursuing Viking fell on it.

They spartled upfield a short distance through the shrubs before the soldiers opened fire.

The smaller squire deftly moved it upfield, passing it on to another squire who immediately kicked it back as several apprentices swarmed over him.

And she instantly delivered it to Man O War, watching him pull it in and turn upfield, a half step taken when a whippet-like ABM hit the broken hand with his helmet, splitting both helmet and cast, the ball bouncing just once before a second whippet scooped it up and galloped in for a touchdown.

But when they needed the long yardage, they went to their big-play back, the one who could turn it upfield, the guy who ran the hundred in ten flat, the swift and elusive Jordan Elliott.

As the car passed, one player broke upfield, running with the long sure stride of a born striker.

He fakes a pass then races upfield, switching the ball from right hand to left and stiff-arming Raiders as he turns toward the end zone.

The only way that play works is for the runner to turn upfield when he gets the ball and follow the quarterback and the blocking guard.