boundary corner

boundary corner (plural boundary corners)

1. (American football) A defensive position, responsible for covering the deep half of the field on the boundary side.
   • 2000, Dick tomey, Rich Ellerson, Larry MacDuff, and Johnnie Lynn, “Swarming the Offense”, in American Football Coaches Association, editor, Defensive Football Strategies, page 80:

     The field corner and boundary corner line up on number 1 strong and number 1 weak, respectively.

   • 2008, Ron Vanderlinden, Football's Eagle & Stack Defenses, page 34:

     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.

   • 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time‎:

     Even if the 5-foot-10 Gladney doesn’t stick as a boundary corner because of his size, his coverage skills, tenacity and feistiness make him an ideal candidate to flourish in the slot.

2. The corner where two boundary lines meet.
   • 2008, Donald A. Wilson, Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation, page 35:

     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.

   • 2014, Paul Gay, Practical Boundary Surveying: Legal and Technical Principles, page 108:

     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.

   • 2016, George M. Cole, Donald A. Wilson, Land Tenure, Boundary Surveys, and Cadastral Systems, page 122:

     It should be utilized only when there is absolutely no evidence of the original location of a boundary corner.