Free Kick question.

Illini_Ref · #1 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 07:03am

I actually had the first part of this question happen in a varsity game last night! The K player recovered however on the one yard line.

Anyway. Free kick. Ball hits at the 15 and bounces forward. R, having a brain fart, lets it roll. It rolls to the one and is covered by K. Easy enought.

Now what if when K fell on it, they muffed it into the endzone where it is covered by K? Touchdown, safety, or R's ball on the 1?

bigjohn · #2 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 07:29am

ART. 1 . . . It is a touchback if any free kick or scrimmage kick:
a. Which is not a scoring attempt or which is a grounded three-point fieldgoal
attempt, breaks the plane of R’s goal line, unless R chooses a spot of
first touching by K.

If K muffed it, they did not recover it or possess the ball. Kick doesn't end unless possessed. R has options but will take the touchback.

kdf5 · #3 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 07:30am

A kick ends when a player gains possession or is declared dead while not in possession. Any kick crossing the receiver's goal line is an automatic touchback. If K jumps on it and it squirts over the plane of the goal line it is a touchback.

mbyron · #4 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 07:55am

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigjohn

R has options but will take the touchback.

What options? It's a touchback. 1/10 @ R20.

bigjohn · #5 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 08:03am

First touching?

bigjohn · #6 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 09:12am

Bueller?

Welpe · #7 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 11:49am

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigjohn

First touching?

On a free kick where the kick is grounded and near R's goal line?

mbyron · #8 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 04:33pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigjohn

First touching?

Would you like to reconsider?

LDUB · #9 (**permalink**) Sat Sep 19, 2009, 05:08pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbyron

Would you like to reconsider?

Don't be so hard on him. He knows that competent people don't make mistakes. How could you not realize that there must have been a lot of fouls on R after the try so the kickoff was from R's 10 yard line...therefore when K touched it at the 1 it was still in the NZ...

bigjohn · #10 (**permalink**) Sun Sep 20, 2009, 01:54pm

exactly!

Texas Aggie · #11 (**permalink**) Sun Sep 20, 2009, 04:00pm

Quote:

Now what if when K fell on it, they muffed it into the endzone where it is covered by K?

NCAA: TD. There's no illegal touching after the ball has fulfilled certain things (go and stay past 10 yards, etc.).

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