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refsmitty

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Free kick
« on: September 06, 2011, 01:44:29 PM »
My crew mate tells me that a free kick can't be caught by K - I am getting confused when reading the following from Rule 6
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ART. 4 . . . Any receiver may catch or recover a free kick in the field of play and
advance, unless any R player has given a valid or invalid fair-catch signal. R may
catch or recover a free kick in K’s end zone.

ART. 5 . . . If any K player recovers or catches a free kick, the ball becomes
dead. It belongs to him unless it is kick-catching interference and R chooses an
awarded fair catch or unless it is first touching.

Help please
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Offline bama_stripes

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Re: Free kick
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2011, 02:56:00 PM »
Your crew mate is partially correct.  K may only legally catch a free kick if it has been muffed by an R player.  Otherwise, it's KCI.

In either event, the ball is immediately dead, since K cannot advance a free kick.
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Boodle

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Re: Free kick
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2011, 03:07:06 PM »
Look at 6-5-6 which provides the specific prohibition of K touching a free kick in flight and decribes it as kick catching interference.
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Offline Atlanta Blue

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Re: Free kick
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2011, 04:35:30 PM »
For a free kick to be possessed by K, the ball must have hit the ground and gone 10 yards.  Those two things can happen in either order.

If R touches or is touched by the ball, the above restrictions are removed.  The ball does NOT have to be muffed by R to remove the restrictions, although a muff would be considered a touch.
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Offline James

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Re: Free kick
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2011, 05:27:51 AM »
The ball does not have to be muffed - but a free kick in flight can not be deemed to have gone 10 yards until it touches something in the field of play. That would have to be the ground or a player.
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Re: Free kick
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2011, 08:45:42 AM »
Quote from: James on September 07, 2011, 05:27:51 AM
The ball does not have to be muffed - but a free kick in flight can not be deemed to have gone 10 yards until it touches something in the field of play. That would have to be the ground or a player.

"The ground or an "R" player - not a "K" player.....(6-5-6)
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