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reff44

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Can K catch a kickoff
« on: October 14, 2010, 05:10:56 PM »
If a kickoff goes 10 yards and there is NO kick catching interference, can K catch the kick on a fly and keep the ball?
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Re: Can K catch a kickoff
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2010, 05:56:39 PM »
No, the kick must tavel 10 yards AND touch the ground, after which K can RECOVER a free kick.
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Re: Can K catch a kickoff
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2010, 08:30:05 PM »
Disagree.  If the kick has broken the plane of B's restraining line and stays there, i.e. is not blown back by the wind, K can catch or recover a free kick.  see 6-1-3-a-2 and the phrase following 6-1-3-a-3, "thereafter, all players of Team A become eligible to touch, recover, or catch a kick."
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Re: Can K catch a kickoff
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2010, 08:43:15 PM »
Pretty certain this is one of this situations where NCAA and NF differ - you are probably both correct.
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Re: Can K catch a kickoff
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2010, 08:53:19 PM »
KCI in Fed but legal in NCAA.

Fed Rule:

6-5-6

ART. 6 . . . While any free kick is in flight in or beyond the neutral zone to the
receiver’s goal line or any scrimmage kick is in flight beyond the neutral zone to
the receiver’s goal line, K shall not:

a. Touch the ball or R, unless blocked into the ball or R, or to ward off a blocker;

or

b. Obstruct R’s path to the ball.

This prohibition applies even when no fair-catch signal is given, but it does not
apply after a free kick has been touched by a receiver, or after a scrimmage kick
has been touched by a receiver who was clearly beyond the neutral zone at the
time of touching.

EXCEPTION: K may catch, touch, muff or bat a scrimmage kick in flight beyond the neutral
zone if no player of R is in position to catch the ball.
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Re: Can K catch a kickoff
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2010, 09:40:15 PM »
Quote from: reff44 on October 14, 2010, 05:10:56 PM
If a kickoff goes 10 yards and there is NO kick catching interference, can K catch the kick on a fly and keep the ball?
Yes in NCAA.
KCI in Federation.
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Re: Can K catch a kickoff
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2010, 08:35:51 AM »
And in the infancy of the NFHS rule allowing K to catch scrimmage kicks, an Arkansas team perfected this play on a kickoff and pulled it twice in a playoff game without being penalized.  I happened to be at the game as a spectator and saw it, then, surprise, was the U in the next round of the playoffs at guess where?  When the coach explained the play to us in our pre-game meet, he was shocked when we informed him it was not legal.  "I did it twice last week."  We know coach, that's why we researched it beforehand.
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