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Originally posted by dpomeroy
Situation #6 in the 2001 NFHS Football Rules Interpretations
letter has our crew stumped: A1's pass is intercepted by
airborne B1 who is driven out of bounds by A2. While
airborne he throws the ball backward(don't you all love how
the NFHS comes up with plays that hopefully will never
happen?) and in #1 it is caught simultaneously by A&B
OR in #2 it just falls to the ground. The NFHS says in #1
it belongs to B but in #2 it is just incomplete. Our crew
understands #1, backward pass, simultaneous catch, belongs to passing team...but #2??? Why is it incomplete and A's ball back at the previous spot?
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Either B has posession or they don't.... what is it?
Who dreams up these things, anyhow???
Maybe there's a "last touched" provision in NHFS that I don't understand, (I'm Canadian, don't do much HS ball) but I don't see how you can have two different posession rulings - which is what you have in the above example. I see it this way: in order to effectively retain the ball and then directed it with intent in a backwards direction, you have posession. That means #2 is a fumble.