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Originally Posted by andy1033
I agree it is confusing, the point being if the run ends in the end zone it is a touchback when a fouls and the ball rolls out of the end zone. It would have been simply to say that this was a touchback.
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REPLY: But Andy...two problems with that approach:
(1) By definition of touchback (8-5-3), a run ending in the endzone is not enough to rule a touchback unless the ball becomes dead in (or outside of) the endzone, and
(2) the rule which tells you how to handle plays that result in a touchback (10-4-5d) says that the basic spot is the succeeding spot, right? Well, the succeeding spot in this play is B's 5.
This is precisely why rule 10-4-6 was added to the Fed code this year. It's quite clear in saying that the basic spot is the 20-yard line. They just need to fix the wording of the case play. The spot where the run ends is significant only in that it now points you to 10-4-6 as the governing rule. The end of the run is most definitely
not the basic spot.