Catch?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Carry means that I "catch you" and then take you out of bounds. If I hit you and you fall out of bounds first, then that is not a catch. It does not matter the direction you are pushed.

Interesting. So if you get under the player who caught the ball and "volleyball" him upward to where he lands out of bounds, that's not a carry-out. But if he catches the ball while moving toward the sideline, and you catch him before he comes down, and his momentum takes him out of bounds, that is a carry-out even if you didn't exert any upward force on him?