7-2 Snaps

[TampaSteve]

Im out of touch.  Help pls.
The old "center snaps the ball, QB touches it while lineman then takes it from the center while he's holding it to his butt" play.
Reading 7-2-4:
ART. 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.

I'm stuch with "immediately leaves" verbiage.  Seems to me that ball needs to be either on the ground or in the QB hands for the lineman to then accept the ball.

Can someone correct me or commend me?

[bbeagle]

The old "center snaps the ball, QB touches it while lineman then takes it from the center while he's holding it to his butt" play.

This play has been illegal for as long as I know. I do have coaches who explain this 'trick play' to us pre-game, so I think some referees might wrongly allow it.

A snap MUST leave the snapper's hands and either (a) hit the ground or (b) a player behind the line of scrimmage. If it doesn't it's a false start.

A QB can receive the ball (after it has left the snapper's hands completely), then once the snapper turns around 180 degrees to his own goal-line, he can then accept the ball legally.

[TampaSteve]

I figured.  I just had my head in my rear...

[KDJBBBJ]

The lineman also has to be one yard in the backfield when he receives the handoff.

[PABJNR]

To hand the ball forward to a lineman he has to turn 180.


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