Defender

A defender is usually a participant in defense (military) or defense (sports).

Defender(s) or The Defender(s) may refer to:

Art and entertainment

Film and television

  • The Defender (1988 film), a Canadian documentary film directed by Stephen Low
  • The Defender (1994 film) or The Bodyguard from Beijing, a film starring Jet Li
  • The Defender (2004 film), a film starring Dolph Lundgren
  • The Defenders (1961 TV series), an American courtroom drama
  • Di-Gata Defenders, a 2006 animated series
  • The Defenders (2010 TV series), an American legal comedy-drama
  • "The Defender", an episode of the American anthology TV series Westinghouse Studio One
  • Literature

  • Defenders (comics), several superhero groups and comic book series in the Marvel Comics universe
  • "The Defenders" (short story), a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick
  • Defender (novel), a 2001 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
  • The Defender (novel), a 1951 children's novel by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
  • Music

  • Defender (album), a 1987 album by Rory Gallagher
  • Defenceman

    Defence (defense in the USA) in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the latter a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen generally position themselves along the line to keep the puck in the zone). They were once called cover-point. A good defenceman is both strong in defensive and offensive play and for defenceman paring also need to be good at defending and attacking

    In regular play, two defencemen complement three forwards and a goaltender on the ice. Exceptions include overtime during the regular season and when a team is shorthanded (i.e. has been assessed a penalty), in which two defencemen are typically joined by only two forwards and a goaltender.

    Historical designations

    Organized play of ice hockey originates from the first indoor game in Montreal in 1875. In subsequent years, the players per side were reduced to seven per side. Positions were standardized, and two correspond to the two defencemen of current six-man rules. These were designated as cover point and point, although they lined up behind the center and the rover, unlike today. Decades later, defencemen were standardized into playing left and right sides of the ice.

    Defender (1895 yacht)

    Defender was the victorious United States defender of the tenth America's Cup in 1895 against challenger Valkyrie III. Defender was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1895. It was Herreshoff's second victorious America's Cup defender design.

    Design

    Defender was a sloop with all-metal construction: steel, aluminum, and manganese bronze. It was owned by William Kissam Vanderbilt, Edwin Dennison Morgan and Charles Oliver Iselin, and skippered by Henry C. Haff.

    Career

    Defender defeated the New York Yacht Club's Vigilant then went on to defend the cup against British keel cutter Valkyrie III. Following the contest, Defender was towed to the residence of C. Oliver Iselin in New Rochelle, New York where it remained docked for four years without sailing. In 1899 J. Pierpont Morgan and W. Buttler Duncan rebuilt Defender to race trials against the America's Cup defense candidate, Columbia.

    The yacht was towed to Herreshoff's Bristol yard for restoration to enable it to race in the selection trials for the 1899 defence. Following the selection trials, Defender returns to its mooring and was finally broken up in 1901.

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