One Point Safety
 

We got into a discussion on our last varsity game drive. Would you ever call a 1 point safety? If so, what are the circumstances (I know them). More importantly, would you have the kahoonas to call it in varsity game?

I would call a 1-point safety if one occurred, yes. Wouldn't take either kahoonas or cajones.

A 1-point safety occurs during a try when A forces the ball 97 yards back into their own endzone and the ball becomes dead there.

No, it isn't likely.

hmmmmm how about
 

A3 fumbles the ball at the one while running to the ez B55 then bats the grounded fumble into his EZ where B 65 recovers the ball. Score 1 pt for A for the safety.

You going to rule that he batted the ball and it just didn't squirt out when he was trying to recover it? Why do people keep discussing plays that WILL NEVER EVER HAPPEN! We have so many plays that we get wrong that happen 5 times a game but officials stay up late at night watching infomercials about Shamwow thinking about plays that will never happen in a million, trillion, gazillion years. WHY?

OK, as long as you're still talking about a try, that's slightly more likely than my scenario. Good point.

A muff of a grounded fumble can also impart a new force, so the result would be the same.

Never? Ask Texas A&M. a 1-point safety happened to them just last year.

A much more likely possibility, albeit NCAA only, is an interception on a try (out of the EZ or brought out of the EZ) where the intercepting team somehow puts the ball in their own EZ (in any number of ways).

I've had it almost happen and our league president has had it happen. It's also in the case book.

It's only a saftey by B (8-3-3), not A. So this would not be a one point safety.

That's a very narrow minded approach.

If it's in the rule book, rest assured, it has happened. That's why it's in there.

Interesting!

I never picked up on that in the Fed book (the latest I have is the 2007 book). I only work Fed on the occasional visits to the US, we work NCAA over here in Europe.

If it is not a 1pt safety, what would it be then? 2 points? The point values table in 8-1 says safety on a try is 1 pt. It doesn't mention teams, so you could argue that a safety by either would be 1pt.

No, you can't.

8-3-3 states that Team A can score 1 point from what would normally be a safety by B.

Under NFHS rules, B cannot score during a try down.

DITTO! :eek:

Okay...you got me, it happen one time! ;)