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Originally Posted by Husker John
During our youth football game covered by High School Rules, we had our placekicker hit by a defender during the try. No roughing the kicker penalty was called. From my view, the defender did not touch the ball and was not blocked into the kicker.
The white hat said that under high school rules the defenders can hit the kicker without a roughing penalty being called. Is this correct, or there certain circumstances that allows this?  |
CANADIAN RULING:
We also have two flvaours of infractions: Contacting the Kicker is 10 yards applied from PLS. Roughing the Kicker is a UR foul: 15 yards + AFD from PLS, OR 15 from PP or PBD.
I also agree that it is a had to be there situation. However, if a player
is blocked into the kicker, that player is
not responsible for the contact. If a player does touch the ball,
their restriction of not hitting the kicker is lifted.