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Old Fri Mar 09, 2018, 08:46am
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by jTheUmp View Post
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In football, there's the "unfair act" provision (FED and NCAA, at least, not sure about NFL) that allows the Referee to award a score... it's almost never used, but it's there. About the only scenario where I think it would be appropriate to do so is if a non-player comes off the sideline and tackles a ballcarrier who has a clear path to the end zone and no opponent with any possibility of making a tackle.
Happened in the 1954 Cotton Bowl where a teammate of Bart Starr came off the bench to make a tackle.
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