Position of ball vs body

[officiating guy]

High school football.
Team k punts and the ball is downed by K on the 1 yard line. However, when K downs the kick they do it while lying on the ground with their feet touching the ground in the end zone. Will the ball next be put in play at the 1 or is it a touchback and it will be put in play on the 20?

[JRutledge]

Feet or where a body is touching has no bearing on where we put the ball as it relates to kick. It is always about where the ball is located.

Peace

[APG]

Your ruling only applies on Sundays...and on Monday Night Football.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by officiating guy

High school football.
Team k punts and the ball is downed by K on the 1 yard line. However, when K downs the kick they do it while lying on the ground with their feet touching the ground in the end zone. Will the ball next be put in play at the 1 or is it a touchback and it will be put in play on the 20?

CANADIAN RULING:

The ball is live on punts, although only onside K players may first touch without committing a Restraining Zone foul.

If K was offside, enforce the 15 yards from the B-1: Team B 1D/10 @ B-16.

If K was onside, the touching is legal and the play is dead because K has possession with their knees touching the ground. Team A 1D/G @ B-1.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Your ruling only applies on Sundays...and on Monday Night Football.

Odd hx of that rule in the NFL. Originally it was only in the case of doubt as to whether the ball was in the end zone that the player's touching the ground in the end zone was to resolve the matter. However, officials must have been instructed to apply it in all cases, even where the ball clearly was still in the field of play, because that's what they were doing for years before they finally changed the rule.

Why do rules making bodies do crap like that?