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Old Tue Nov 10, 2009, 12:01am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by Mike L View Post
No. You move the ball forward a couple inches so that no part of the ball is breaking the plane.
That's what Brice Durbin told me in the Fed office when I visited in 1980. It's never been written in any manual, but that's the instruction passed down.

Never comes up in Canadian football, where the ball is never spotted with any of it inside either 1 yard line.
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