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Old Tue Oct 09, 2007, 10:47am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by dumbref
Forward progress is slightly different at the GL VS field of play. When the ball breaks the plain of the GL it becomes dead and any movement of the ball after that is ignored. In the field of play, if the player extends the ball and is downed there - he is entitled to the forward progress. But if he extends the ball momentarily and on his own, returns the ball to his chest - I am not giving him that forward progress. It was his backward movement of the ball that elminates the forward progress.
How about if he extends the ball and immediately yells "down"? (They still have that in Fed? NCAA abolished it a long time ago.)
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