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Originally Posted by Eastshire
In your basketball play, A1 has not made a try for goal because he has not "attempt[ed] to score two points by throwing the ball into a team's own basket" (NFHS 4-41-2) since he cannot score from a throw-in (NFHS 5-1-1). The goal is not credited to any player but recorded as a footnote (NFHS 5-2-3).
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That's what I was thinking. Of course, that doesn't stop any scorekeeper/statistician -- be it basketball or soccer -- from crediting any score to an offensive player.