The projective span of a smooth manifold is defined to be the maximal number of linearly independent tangent line fields. We initiate a study of projective span, highlighting its relationship with the span, a more classical invariant. We calculate the projective span for all Wall manifolds, which are certain mapping tori of Dold manifolds.
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