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Strange Youth Football Play
The snapper snapped the ball. The QB touched the ball (not sure if planned or if he had a hard time getting the ball), but the snapper then took off running with the ball. What should the call be? I have two options... either a snap infraction, which would have caused the ball to remain dead, which I don't think happened because the QB did touch the ball. Or maybe illegal handing. What do you all think? Have you seen this before?
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Read rule 2.
2-40-2: "The snap begins when the snapper first moves the ball legally other than in adjustment. In a snap, the movement must be a quick and continuous backward motion of the ball during which the ball immediately leaves the hand(s) of the snapper and touches a back or the ground before it touches an A lineman." Also, see 7-2-4: "A snap shall be such that the ball immediately leaves the hand or hands of the snapper and touches a backfield player or the ground before it touches an A lineman. A scrimmage down must start with a legal snap. An illegal snap causes the ball to remain dead." If the snapper fails to release the ball, it's an illegal snap. Dead ball enforcement (7-1-4), 5 yards, replay the down. |
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Snap infraction. Ball never left the snapper's hand.
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This is the classic "center sneak". It's a planned play. I've seen this play at youth level here in Texas. We shut it down as an illegal snap. The coach went nuts and we had to have him escorted out. You'd think that these coaches would realize there is a reason they don't run this play at the higher levels and that's because it's illegal.
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Isn't that extreme for someone who just didn't know a rule? You should understand that coaches of children's football are volunteers, many of whom don't have that much knowledge of the game.
We're down to 2 coaches per team in our division. It can be hard to find people willing to coach, and recent publicity of a severe child abuse case associated with children's sports and with American football hasn't helped. Besides their availability, coaches are often chosen for their experience in keeping the att'n of children. Knowledge of the game is good, but sometimes has to take a back seat to other consider'ns. |
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Ignorance was not that individual's only failing. Or perhaps you don't understand what "the coach went nuts" means, or what his behavior teaches his players?
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Yeah and I found out today, as I work with someone who was at the game because his nephew was on the team, that the crowd was complaining that I threw a flag on it and could not understand how it was against the rules. Now I did have it wrong as I whould have killed it as a dead ball penaltly, but regardless, some things just crack me up.
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Teaching players to cheat and hurt the opponents is sociopathic, though, and rightfully deserves to be forcefully extricated from the league. With steel batons, if necessary. (I rarely advocate violence, but when a man teaches children to hurt other children, physical violence is a far more merciful fate than what some mothers would come up with.) |
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