2 questions about high school football

[js2397]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

I'm not sure what you mean. If a free kick goes out of bounds untouched by R, R has three choices:
1) 5 yard penalty, rekick.
2) put the ball in play 25 yards beyond the previous spot. (normally R's 35 yard line).
3) put the ball in play at the out-of-bounds spot. (declining the penalty)

So you can decline the penalty every time K kicks out of bounds, but you're only going to get the chance to do that once per kick.

I was told by an official that the receiving team could only make the kicking team rekick twice.

[MNBlue]

Originally Posted by js2397

I was told by an official that the receiving team could only make the kicking team rekick twice.

I have no clue what rule they are using to support that comment.

[bigjohn]

Well, THAT was the rule THAT night! right rut?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

Well, THAT was the rule THAT night! right rut?

Can you ever stop being an azz!!!!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by MNBlue

I have no clue what rule they are using to support that comment.

I agree that no rule specifically limits rekicks to 2.

9-9 permits officials to invoke the "unfair acts" provision if they judge that a team is making a travesty of the game.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by MNBlue

I have no clue what rule they are using to support that comment.

Wellllll...there was a rule in the 19th Century that if you kicked off out of bounds, the other team then kicked off...and if each team did that twice in succession, then the original team K would scrimmage.

[bigjohn]

ART. 2 . . . No team shall repeatedly commit fouls which halve the distance to
the goal line

By this rule it would be after 8 kicks OOB.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

ART. 2 . . . No team shall repeatedly commit fouls which halve the distance to
the goal line

By this rule it would be after 8 kicks OOB.

Glad you're not on the field. That is NOT what this rule is about.

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Glad you're not on the field. That is NOT what this rule is about.

I think you half the distance if it was butt-blocking.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Forksref

I think you half the distance if it was butt-blocking.

[buckrog64]

js: you hear all sorts of stuff from all sorts of people in this 'business.' Last week I had a freshman coach inform me that there was no longer a difference in facemasking penalties between 5 or 15 yards. All were now 15. Another official had told him so. Hmmm, ok.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by buckrog64

js: you hear all sorts of stuff from all sorts of people in this 'business.' Last week I had a freshman coach inform me that there was no longer a difference in facemasking penalties between 5 or 15 yards. All were now 15. Another official had told him so. Hmmm, ok.

NCAA rule. No incidental. It's either 15 or nothing.

[js2397]

Thanks, the issue was another coach I know was kicking the ball out of bounds at the end of the half to keep the other team from returning the kick for a TD. He thought there was a limit on the number of times you could make the kicking team rekick. The officials that night said no and he had to kick in bounds and the return team scored a TD. I asked an official at my game the following week as did he and we got two different answers.

[bigjohn]

I personally don't like the rule against K kicking the ball out of bounds. If you have a kid that can kick the ball OOB inside the 5 yl, he should not be penalized for R not being able to field it first.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

I personally don't like the rule against K kicking the ball out of bounds. If you have a kid that can kick the ball OOB inside the 5 yl, he should not be penalized for R not being able to field it first.

If the makers of the game at higher levels really want to reduce the amount of bodies flying into each other at high speed on the free kick runbacks, as it seems they've wanted to do recently, they should adopt rugby's rule of having the kick to go out of bounds be legal as long as it touches the ground or a player first. Team R would concentrate more on protecting the sidelines, which would spread them out more, and kicks would be lower and aimed toward sidelines more often, so you'd have less of players taking a long run at each other down the middle with a wedge of blockers.