2 questions about high school football

[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.