Yet, for a scrimmage kick to score points the ball (airborne, no less), must pass BETWEEN the uprights. There is no extension OVER the pole(s).
In the murky daze of yesteryear, there was a time when the kick passed OVER the pole the kick was good. I tried to locate it in NFHS Handbook that has a chronology of rule changes, but to no avail. I will scour some old rule books to see if it shows up.
UPDATED : as I set in my Ganges Kahn rocker, enduring the Great Windstorm of 2017......
By lamplight, as a power outage shut the whole state down, I discovered on p.42 of 1972 NFHS Rule Book the following definition of a field-goal (that's how they spelled 'em back then)..........
8-4-1 A field-goal is scored as follows :
c." The kick shall pass through the opponent's goal (above the crossbar) or directly OVER a goal post."
Today, said article reads : "The kicked ball shall pass BETWEEN the vertical uprights or the INSIDE of the uprights extended and above the crossbar of the opponent's goal."
I then drank a shot of Bourbon ,turned off the lamp and retired.