Thread: Punt behind NZ
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Old Mon Sep 06, 2010, 07:47pm
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by BroKen62 View Post
This happened to us the other night - K's ball 4th and 10 at their 40. Punt is straight up, hit the ground beyond the NZ, bounced back behind the NZ, comes to rest @37. K comes up, touches the ball, R comes in, picks it up and scores. We never blew it dead. Was that right?
In all current major USAn and Canadian codes, yes. In NCAA, because the ball touched ground on R's side of the neutral zone, R would have a theoretic choice of the touchdown or 1st down at the spot of touching by K.
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