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Football Officiating => National Federation Discussion => Topic started by: bmem66 on October 19, 2025, 01:10:43 PM

Title: Catch or no catch.
Post by: bmem66 on October 19, 2025, 01:10:43 PM

I know that if a receiver leaps up and catches the ball and is carried out of bounds, it is a catch. However, if a receiver jumps up and catches the ball and would have come down inbounds but it’s pushed out of bounds before he lands, that is not a catch, correct?

Title: Re: Catch or no catch.
Post by: Ted T on October 19, 2025, 07:55:00 PM

Yes, correct.

Title: Re: Catch or no catch.
Post by: ElvisLives on October 20, 2025, 12:08:13 AM

You may want to verify “pushed/blocked,” as opposed to grasped and carried, out of bounds. The latter just might mean the catch was completed and progress was stopped in the field of play.