The Football is a prominent bare rock scar of football shape on the north side of Football Mountain

Football Mountain

Football Mountain is a mountain, 830 m, with a prominent and peculiar rock scar called The Football on its north side, on the ridge between Edisto Inlet and Tucker Glacier. It was occupied as a survey station, and marked by a large rock cairn, by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic...

, on the ridge separating Edisto Inlet

Edisto Inlet

Edisto Inlet is a rectangular arm of Moubray Bay, 7 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, entered between Cape Hallett and Cape Christie. The USS this branch of Moubray Bay in February 1956, and the name Edisto Bay was given at that time. Edisto Inlet has overtaken the earlier name in...

 and Tucker Glacier

Tucker Glacier

Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, about 144 km long, flowing southeast between Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea...

. The scar is surrounded by an unbroken snow slope and is said to be always visible, though occasionally lightly covered by snow for short periods, and is consequently a landmark for pilots and men at Hallett station. Given this descriptive name by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...

(NZGSAE), 1957-58.