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Originally Posted by GPC2
Hey Juggling, in Canada if a player goes down on his own, is the play dead (as in college and high school), or can he get up and continue running (as in the NFL). I am asking that to try and make sense of what you are saying about the holder lifting his knee off the ground.
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In the Canadian posts I write about, they are regarding the amateur rule. (Maybe some day I can post about CFL rules.
) We have only two rules books: professional (CFL), and amateur (everything else: pop warner, high school, club, community, junior, and NCAA-level).
The amateur rule is that "once you're down, you're down", that is, a player cannot get up and continue. The CFL rule is that of the NFL.
There is an exception to the amateur code that a place kick holder can possess the ball with a knee on the ground and not be dead, for the only purpose of holding the ball for the kicker. If the holder has to rise to catch a bad snap, he may legally go back to a knee for his holding duties for the kicker. And even in this case, he may rise that knee again if he wishes to throw and hand-off the ball.
It's quite easy to remember actually: The holder can do whatever he wants, but he:
- must lift the knee to throw or hand-off the ball
- can go to a knee at any time to hold for a place kick