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The ruling is the same under Federation rules. When opponents simultaneously catch a legal or illegal forward pass, the ball becomes dead and belongs to the passing team at the spot of the catch. Both players must be inbounds. If one of the opponents is out-of-bounds at the time the ball is touched or first lands out-of-bounds after touching the ball, it is not a catch. It becomes a dead ball, loose ball out-of-bounds, incomplete pass.
The same ruling applies to a backward pass or fumble (except, of course, the part about being an incomplete pass).
If any free-kick or scrimmage kick becomes dead anywhere inbounds in joint possession of opponents, the ball belongs to R.
[Edited by Middleman on Dec 1st, 2001 at 08:54 AM]
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