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Touchback?
With the night off, I went to see my old high school play. Here's what happens: Punt returner sees ball is going to land around the 10, so he gets out of the way to let it roll. It rolls near the goal line, but doesn't stop until a player from K downs it at the 1 yardline after having slid into the endzone. The K player was completely in the endzone, laying down, with his arm outstretched the stop the ball from coming in.
I'm convinced this should be called a touchback, but the back judge marked it at the 1 and the crew didn't discuss it. I'm not crazy, am I? |
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In HS the position of the player is irrelevant. That might be an NFL rule.
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You're probably right that I've let what I see in the NFL color my outlook on the play. |
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The crew didn't discuss it because they nailed the call. If the coach was wondering about it, I would have made sure that we discussed it with him so he understood how that is the rule for NF and NCAA.
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The NFL has a kind of momentum rule here as well. Instead of the ball's being immediately dead when K possesses it, if it's inside R's 5 (or maybe 10, I forget) yard line the dead ball is held in abeyance if K recovers while moving toward R's goal line and can still produce a touchback due to K's touching ground in the end zone, until the player in possession stops moving toward the end zone. Robert P.S.: There was a time in NCAA (probably in other USAn codes too) when first touching by K inside R's 10 yard line produced a touchback. Last edited by Robert Goodman; Sat Nov 01, 2008 at 12:27pm. Reason: PS |
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