Is it a touchdown?

[mtridge]

If a player controls a pass end the endzone and is pushed to the one yard line before he first touches the ground is it a touchdown or if tackled there is the ball at the one.

the basic philosophy says possession in the opponents endzone is always a touchdown. The rule book defines a control or held ball as possession. However if you say that having the ball behind the goal line would create a touchdown then why would someone who controls it and goes out of bounds have an incomplete pass. If you say that it is not a touchdown and it goes to the one then how is a controlled or held ball defined such that it would not be possession?