Federation Rule Question

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Originally posted by sloth
In the federation rule book, 2-16-4 states that "no foul causes a live ball to be dead". Here is a scenarion I am curious about. The yard markers aren't too significant...scrimmage kick. K1 kicks the ball well past the LOS. R1 catches the ball on the run, takes 3-4 steps and signals fair catch. Clearly by rule an illegal fair catch (as defined in 2-9-5).

Now since everything was legal up until the illegal fair catch, I have an instance according to 2-16-4 where a foul can not cause the live ball to be dead. However, I have a reciever that thinks he has protection under a fair catch. I don't blow the whistle, and he gets knocked into next week. I blow the whistle (to kill it) and I commit an inadvertant whistle.

Thoughs, insights, suggestions?


[Edited by sloth on Jun 30th, 2003 at 10:20 PM]

We'll as you have by now have read.. a play situation like this remains live.
A players misunderstanding of the rules is just, well an unfortunate problem that is not the officials concern. I would certainly not advise that an IW is the easy way out. They just cause more problems.

To bad the NF doesn't follow the NCAA code. This play would have been blown dead.