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Old Wed Feb 06, 2013, 12:01am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by parepat View Post
A twist on Sunday's events. 4th and 10 at A's 5yl. A99 lines up to punt. A99 instead takes the snap and runs around to waste time with the goal to take a safety. B50, recognizing the plan, reaches A99 before goes down. B50 grabs A99 and carries him out of the endzone before tackling him on the A2 yl.
That used to be practically impossible while there was verbal declaration of "down" by the runner, but it seems all the American codes have by now deleted that one. I know NCAA was first, don't know when NFL did that but I think Fed preceded them. Do either of the Canadian codes still have it?
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