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Old Mon Sep 08, 2008, 10:22am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by cmathews
Ohio at Wyoming.... Wyoming kicks off into the endzone touchback. Ball on the 20 skip ahead to 3rd down, 3rd down ends with the ball touching the 30 yd line. Wyoming asks for and is granted a measurement, and it is a couple links short....4th down.....it turned out to not be a big deal, as Ohio went for it and made it....it does illustrate some common sense...if we start on the 20 and the ball ends up touching the 30 it is a first down...DO NOT MEASURE.
Exactly! What makes anyone think the line the chain was put on was any straighter than the one the ball reached?
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