n. — Canadian Football
the scoring of a single point on a missed field goal, or when the receiving team fails to run a kicked ball out of its end zone.
Type: 1. Origin — The origin is considered "obscure" in DCHP-1, but is almost certainly inherited from the English rugby term of that name. A rouge is sometimes also called single or single point. American football, with the exception of some minor leagues, does not recognize single points of this type. As of late (see the 2006 quotation), the rouge, after coming close to being abolished by the CFL in 2005, has become entrenched as a Canadian feature. Even if not Canadian by origin, the term has lately become culturally significant. As Chart 1 shows, the term is -- in the phrase to score a rouge to cancel out noise -- overwhelmingly used in Canada.
See also Gage-1, s.v. "rouge (3)", which defines the meaning as "in Canadian football", ITP Nelson, s.v. "rouge (3)", which is marked "Cdn. Football", COD-2, s.v. "rouge (3)", which is labelled "Cdn Football".