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Originally posted by Joel_5
This happened to me last night and i was unsure about a call made by the refs and I was wondering if you could clear a few thing up for me. This is 9th grade football in Missouri.
I will tell the story in first person. My team punted the ball, and the ball bounced off the returner and into the endzone and my team recovered it. Explain to me why that is not a touchdown.
Thank you
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Because, presuming you are playing Federation rules, ANY non-scoring kick (a punt cannot score any points) is automatically dead and is a touchback by rule when it crosses R's goal line (8-5-3a). Force is not a factor on kicks entering R's end zone.
So in your play, your team could not recover the kick for a touchdown. The ball became dead when it entered R's end zone.