Illegal Forward Pass from End Zone on Free Kick

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by bisonlj

I had a very similar play as well except I blew it dead as soon as K touched it on the ground. There were no R players in the area and I realized after I could have told K it was a live ball and they could try to advance it. My error was that I thought at the time that it was a dead ball so technically I had an IW. I didn't realize the ball had bouded behind the original line of scrimmage. Not a major factor in a big blowout and nobody realized it but me.

For a long time that was a dead ball in Fed. Fed rules used to seem to want to maximize the number of conditions that would make the ball dead, presumably by the logic that fewer injuries occur once the ball is dead. They seem to have lightened up on that in the past decade or so.

Meanwhile I saw for the 2nd time in the Big Apple Youth Football League this season team K allowed to advance its own recovered free kick ball (for a TD in each case), with different officials in the two games with those occurrences, so probably I should conclude BAYFL does allow that. AYF uses Fed rules in its playoffs, but allows its affiliates to use any rules locally.

Robert