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Is it a touchdown?
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? |
Touchdown. NFHS 2.15.1
The solution to your quandary is forward progress: if a player catches the ball and his forward progress is stopped in bounds, then he is treated as if he had contacted the ground at the forward progress spot. True for sideline plays as well. |
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Just trying to make sense of this.
"possessing the live ball in its opponent’s end zone (in mid air)" when landing out of the end zone at the one is a touchdown. "possessing the live ball in its opponent’s end zone (in mid air)" when landing out of the end zone out of bounds is an incomplete pass out of bounds. "possessing the live ball in its opponent’s end zone (in mid air)" but losing possession after hitting the ground is an incomplete pass. Are these correct? |
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2. Depends: if he lands beyond the end line, that's incomplete. If we're talking about the sideline in the EZ, it's the same progress question as any other sideline play (4.3.3B). 3. Correct, not a catch (2-4-1). |
Canadian Ruling
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We know how Fed wants these cases ruled. It's just that they're being inconsistent if they're claiming to derive it from their concepts of "runner" and "possession".
For contrast, consider the situation if the receiver just touches the pass while the ball is in the opposing end zone, and then from an opponent's push winds up first controlling the ball while it's in the field of play. You can't rule progress to the end zone because not all of the conditions to make him a runner existed at that time. But it would appear in the case of controlling the ball while not touching the ground, he is allowed to have progress even though he doesnt satisfy all those conditions either. |
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