Illegal Kick

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by SC Official

How would B get 1st & goal by accepting the penalty? Illegal kicking is not a loss of down foul.

Quite right... that's what I get for reading studying NCAA rules for an hour and then trying to answer a FED rules question.

Allow me to rephrase situation B in my previous post:
B) Result of the play is a safety. Team B can either decline the penalty and accept the safety or accept the penalty and replay the down from wherever the half-the-distance penalty leaves the ball. If the illegal kick occurred in the end zone, the result is a safety either way.


Of course, now the OP has been edited to say "Fumbles the snap and recovers the ball" rather than "Fumbles the snap and attempts to kick the ball"... so with that in mind:

Once the punter has recovered the ball, they may punk or drop kick it in any direction they wish. You just don't normally see a player punt the ball towards their own end line because there's absolutely no reason or benefit to doing so. Officiate the result the same way you would any other scrimmage kick play.