double tackle
Americannoun
noun
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The Leigh full-back spilled possession in a double tackle by Liam Byrne and Liam Farrell and Adam Keighran put French in for a walk-in.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
McKenzie, who also sits on World Rugby's women's high-performance rugby committee, coaches a double tackle where one player chops the opponents' legs and the other targets the ball to prevent offloads.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
That launched a Scotland attack of 17 phases before center Harris powered over in a double tackle to double their lead.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2020
Mafi comes off the back of the maul, round the corner and goes low, smashing through the double tackle and over the line on the left.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015
But even with my tackle—and double tackle in the case of the heavier pieces—this was a back-breaking job that took up the whole of three days.
From In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
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