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Kickoff Options
I was of the mind (not a football official though) that a team could punt a ball on a kickoff. It came up in regards to a strategy debate I was reading. A coach said that you can only punt after a safety.
Educate me please as to what options you have for kicking the ball in a high school game . Thanks |
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Place kick or drop kick only on a kickoff after a TD or FG.
After a safety, you can also punt. If punting was an option, most all teams would probably punt as most punts are as long or longer than place kicks.
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The rationale for the exception is surely the fact that a free kick following a safety is made from the 20 rather than the usual free kick spot. Free kicks following safeties are thus exceptional in 2 ways. |
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There really was never a rationale. These were completely arbitrary distinctions. There was a movement during approximately the 2nd half of the 20th Century to conform all the free kick rules to each other; previously the kickoff hadn't even been called a free kick. That movement receded and the rules partly diverged from each other again. |
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