Question: What is the rule NFHS rule regarding a blocked field goal attempt. Watched an attempt last week where the kick was blocked, the kicker picked up the ball and ran for a touchdown. Everyone on the defense just stood their like they expected the ball to be blown dead.

Nobody from the defensive team touched the ball (with the exception of the kid that blocked the kick).

perfectly legal

Any scrimmage kick can be recovered (or caught) behind the NZ and advanced by the kicking team in both NF and NCAA rules.

There is a slight difference between the codes that would limit that, but for your NFHS case play, that would not be a factor.

6-2-3 Any kicker may catch or recover a scrimmage kick while it is in or behind the neutral zone and advance, unless it is during a try.

I'm guessing there was a new lesson in practice the week after that play.

So if the kick never makes it beyond the NZ, can the defense pick up the blocked field goal attempt and run it for a TD?

The defense can pick up a kick and run with it anytime (except out of the EZ under NF rules).

Anytime? On a blocked PAT???

PAT wasn't part of your question, you asked about a field goal and he answered your question perfectly.

To answer your ammended question, no the ball is dead on a PAT attempt after it has been kicked once it has passed through the uprights or is obviously unsucessful. A PAT attempt is over and the ball dead when the ball is normally dead or when B secures possession of the ball.

[Edited by BulldogMcC on Oct 20th, 2005 at 12:04 PM]

Yes he did answer my question perfectly...and you answered the next one pefectly...thanks to both of you.

I probably should have explicitly stated that a scrimmage kick TRY attempt was exempted, but since we have been talking about scrimmage kick field goal attempts, I didn't think about it.

That being said, I think last year one or more states was experimenting with a possible rule change to allow team-B to score on a failed PAT attempt. Not sure if anyone is experimenting with that again this year, but they would be able to run back a blocked PAT.

Not true. An unsucessful field goal (because we are talking about that) becomes a touchback when it breaks the plane of the goal line.

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So what is not true about my statement?

Nothing is incorrect about your statement.

Trigger--he is saying that the "defense" can not bring the kick out of the endzone because it is already dead (NF).

Oregon is one of the states experimenting with keeping the ball live after a change of possession on a try attempt. This is our second year using this experiment.