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Originally Posted by The Roamin' Umpire
WOW - what a great case play! I'd never thought of anything like this before...  |
Someone brought it up in rec.sport.officiating a few years ago.
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I'm thinking there's no way this can be a touchdown - that (with one exception, which this isn't) requires possession of a live ball in the opponents' end zone....
I can't find any rule about not snapping the ball in the EZ. (I guess they thought they wouldn't need one.
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In proceedings of the Fed football rules committee (back when they were first formulating rules separately from NCAA), there was discussion of renaming the "field of play" (which, when you think about it, has long been a misnomer in rugby, American, and Canadian football) as the "scrimmage zone", because it was the only place you could scrimmage the ball from. Rugby Union laws state that scrums, rucks, and mauls can take place only in the field of play. Canadian football specifically outlaws scrimmaging the ball from within 1 yard of either goal line, but that was a result of adoption of the 1 yard NZ.
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So I suppose, if you rule first touching in the EZ, then B takes over inside of their own EZ.
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Own? Must be a basketball ref writing.
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Technically, they need to snap the ball to score their TD, but I wouldn't bother with that.
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There used to be a way in American & Canadian football to score (not be awarded, but for a player to actively score) a TD with a dead ball. If a team kicked the ball OOB behind their own goal line, R1 could take the ball out of bounds, as was their option with any other ball belonging to them OOB, walk it in from the sideline 5 to 15 yards, and touch it down. In that case, touching it down produced a touchdown. (If it was in the field of play, that would be their spot to scrimmage it from.)
However, if a team
carried or threw the ball OOB on or behind their own goal line, that would produce a safety only, even if it was last down. (You'd think turning it over on downs would produce a similar walk-in TD for the other team, but noooo.)
Robert