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Originally Posted by ChileColts
Hi everyone, first of all my apologies in advance because im not an english native speaker/writer.
Last week, i was in a game and the ref. call a TD on a recovery in the endzone, one coach argumented the call saying the recovery was a Touchback, the other one keep silent and take the points.
the situation was:
A Team kick off the ball.
B team Receive the ball.
The ball hit the endzone and stay there, the B Team's coach scream to his player do not touch the ball, and let the A Team recover the ball, i think he was confused with a punt recovery and Kick off recovery.
The A team (Kicking team) recover the ball in the endzone and was awarded with a TD by the ref.
the question is: was that call correct or was a mistake ?? if the call was wrong, what its the correct call ??
I thought the call was correct because after 10 yards, the ball its free and was recovery inside the end-zone by the kicking team.
Thanks in advance to everyone who spend time to read my post.
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The rules are different depending on if the game is played under NCAA rules or NFHS rules.
However,
In your play, as described, the ball did not touch a team B (or R) player before touching the ground in the end-zone.
As such, Touchback would be the correct ruling in NCAA
Touchback would also be correct in NFHS as any Kick that breaks the plane of R's goal line is a touchback by rule.