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Originally Posted by HawkeyeCubP
Thank you, R.G.
Anyone else? I know there are some NCAA football officials on here. Someone give me something with a rule number - please?
Any high school officials that want to tackle the apparent contradiction (or my misunderstanding) of the two previously-cited sections of the NFHS rule/case? The ball does not touch the ground in the case play, so does the ball have to touch the ground in order for K to catch the kickoff?
(My books only go back to 2002, and that's the only case play that addresses the topic, that I can find.)
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In the case play, the team-K member did not
recover the free kick, he
caught it. It is not kick catch interference because a team-R player muffed it (i.e. touched the free kick) into the air. You can only recover a ball that is on the ground.
There is no contradiction in my opinion.