# End run

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{{short description|Gridiron football play}}
[[File:Yost tackle over lhb.jpg|A run around [right end](/source/offensive_end)|thumb]]
In [gridiron football](/source/gridiron_football), an '''end run''' is a running play in which the player carrying the ball tries to avoid being [tackled](/source/Tackle_(football_move)) by running outside the end (or flank) of the [offensive line](/source/offensive_line).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/end%20run|title=Definition of END RUN|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-23}}</ref> It is distinct from a [dive](/source/Dive_(American_football)), which is a run "up the middle", or an [off-tackle run](/source/off-tackle_run), which is a run through the inside gap created by the [offensive tackle](/source/offensive_tackle). Most [option offense](/source/option_offense)s are based on the end run.<ref name=def>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8hpvdraEnv0C&pg=PA132 ''Defensive Football Strategies'', pg. 132]</reF>

Colloquially, and in a metaphorical sense it has come to mean an attempt to avoid a difficult situation by dodging it without confronting it directly, or to attempt to circumvent someone's authority by appealing to a different authority.<ref name="obamabegging">{{cite news|url=http://www.themoralliberal.com/2013/01/16/obama-is-begging-for-impeachment/|title=Obama is Begging for Impeachment|first=Alan|last=Caruba|date=January 16, 2013|access-date=January 16, 2013|work=The Moral Liberal}} ("An end run around Congress.")</ref> For example, in ''[Star Trek: The Next Generation](/source/Star_Trek%3A_The_Next_Generation)'', [William Riker](/source/William_Riker) states: "You need to take it to the Captain, fine – through me. You do an end run around me again, I'll snap you back so hard you'll think you're a first-year cadet again."<ref name="sttng">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708785/quotes IMDb - "Star Trek: The Next Generation" The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1] - ("You need to take it to the Captain, fine - through me. You do an end run around me again, I'll snap you back so hard you'll think you're a first-year cadet again.")</ref>

==Defensive strategy==
thumb|right|200px|Clay White attempts an end run during a 1959 game.
When faced with an opposing team using the end run, one requires three things to stop it: outside containment (from say a [cornerback](/source/cornerback)), defense of the [cutback](/source/cutback_(football_move)) (from say a [defensive end](/source/defensive_end)), and a [safety](/source/Safety_(American_football_position)) (to defend the [halfback pass](/source/halfback_pass)).<ref name=def/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSdFGxH0KJEC&pg=PA36|title=Arnsparger's Coaching Defensive Football|last=Arnsparger|first=Bill|date=1998-07-24|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781574441628|language=en}}</ref>
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==References==
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{{Gridiron football plays}}
Category:American football plays
Category:Idioms
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