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Old Thu Sep 04, 2008, 10:43am
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Canadian Ruling

In Canada, we have the same interpretation that the ground can cause an incompletion.

In my interpretation, unless the knee hitting the ground and the rest of the body hitting the ground can be clearly distinguished as separate events and not part of the same action of hitting the ground, I would rule that the pass was incomplete because the player's possession did not survive the contact with the ground.

For it to be complete in this situation, the player would have to land on his knee, pause with control of the ball and then fall over to hit the ground "again".
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