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Offline Stinterp

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Field Markings
« on: July 05, 2019, 09:01:49 AM »
Does a NFHS field have to have a mark on the 40 yard line?  I do not see that covered in the wording of the rule, however in the field diagram that is in the book, there is an "X" on each 40 yard line.
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Offline CalhounLJ

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Re: Field Markings
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2019, 09:04:10 AM »
My knee jerk response would be no. The X serves no purpose in the 49, because K is free to kick from any spot within the hashes.


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Offline AlUpstateNY

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Re: Field Markings
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2019, 10:22:13 AM »
It would seem marking each 40 yard line is simply to simplify identifying it as the designated Free Kick line.
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Offline CalhounLJ

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Re: Field Markings
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2019, 10:28:09 AM »
That's probably right..  :patrioticon:
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Offline Ralph Damren

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Re: Field Markings
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2019, 09:17:14 AM »
Remembering back to my daze of youth, down-markers and numbers on the field had yet to be invented. Often we would arrive to a field with only 10 painted yard lines and both 40's "Xed". It made life easier then. Life has became much easier, with the markings, since then. Probably no reason to remove the "Xs" has ever came up.
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