Awarded Fair Catch

STEVED21 · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 30, 2004, 07:28am

In last night's Miami Marshall game, there was kick catching interference on Miami with 8 sec to go in the half. 15 yds were marked off from the spot of the foul then Marshall tried a 50+ FG from normal scrimmage kick formation on the near hash mark. It went way left.

Question: under NCAA rules, do they have the same option as Fed to free kick for FG from any place between hashes or was that gone after they took the 15 yds? Or is the free kick not an option at all?

PS. Miami took 3 consecutive TO's. I was waiting for the Marshall HC in the 5 min of dead time to realize he could free kick.

Hand Signals · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 30, 2004, 07:45am

I was wondering the same thing. Does he have an option of taking the Awarded Fair Catch at the spot of the foul or the 15 yds?

cmathews · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 30, 2004, 08:52am

NCAA 8-4-1a the only way to score a field goal is from a scrimmage kick formation. The last sentence of the article states "The kick shall be a scrimmage kick but may not be a free kick."