Author Topic: Can Rules - Snaps  (Read 6631 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline TampaSteve

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 1509
  • FAN REACTION: +23/-13
Can Rules - Snaps
« on: September 08, 2014, 03:10:28 PM »
A friend in OTT has a kid playing youth ball under CAN rules (3 downs, etc.).  They showed me a play they got away with that is illegal for NFHS.  Just curious if it is too for CAN/CFL Rules.

The old "center snaps the ball, QB touches it while lineman then takes it from the center as he's still holding it to his butt" play.
Reading NFHS 7-2-4 it's illegal: 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.

What's the story in CAN? - thanks

Offline JugglingReferee

  • *
  • Posts: 1059
  • FAN REACTION: +40/-15
  • Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ
Re: Can Rules - Snaps
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2015, 06:33:10 AM »
Legal so long as the lineman is at least a yard off the LS.

Offline Rulesman

  • Past Keeper of the Keys
  • Refstripes Hero
  • *****
  • Posts: 3839
  • FAN REACTION: +65535/-2
  • Live like tomorrow never comes.
Re: Can Rules - Snaps
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2015, 07:59:55 AM »
Legal so long as the lineman is at least a yard off the LS.
If the lineman is one yard off the LOS, is he really a lineman?
"Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good."
- Vince Lombardi

Offline JugglingReferee

  • *
  • Posts: 1059
  • FAN REACTION: +40/-15
  • Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ
Re: Can Rules - Snaps
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2015, 08:43:09 AM »
Sorry - I meant after the snap, and when he received the ball.