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Originally Posted by surehands
Runner A25 dives into the pylon at the intersection of the goal line and sidelines and the ball breaks the plane of the goal line.
We gave them a touchdown. Is that correct?
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By that description -- "dives...and the ball breaks the plane" -- I could imagine a rare situation in which, say, his helmet hits the pylon before the ball reaches the plane of the goal line, in which case it would be spotted in the field of play. But most ways I'd imagine it, the ball would break the plane first, in which case touchdown.
Remember that when the ball is being carried, it's not dead by virtue of the carrier's being out of bounds until it or the carrier actually touches something out of bounds. So the ball could cross the plane of the sideline from the field of play and still be live. The out-of-bounds point is irrelevant if the ball never gets spotted, because a touchdown occurs first.