Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!greg From: greg@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg Noel) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Canadian "single" in U.S. football? Message-ID: <77@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 16:45:29 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.77 Posted: Fri Sep 21 16:45:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:32:59 EDT References: <13000005@uiucdcs.UUCP> <1250@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: NCR Corporation, Torrey Pines Lines: 27 In article <1250@ucla-cs.ARPA> wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rich Wales) writes: >It needs to be kept in mind that end zones in the CFL are 25 yards deep, >and that the goal posts are even with the goal lines. Hence, a failed >field goal attempt in Canadian football is less likely to go all the way >through the end zone, and the receiving team has more of a chance to get >the ball and try to run it out. True. I would modify the Canadian rule so that a ball that goes out the back of the end zone without being touched (by either team) would be a touchback as it is now. This wouldn't change the field-goal kicking game very much, but just think what it would do to the punting game..... The tactics would change a lot. Instead of kicking for the coffin corner or trying to make a punt die without crossing the goal line, the punter would try to make the punt die in the end zone for a point. This would be an added bonus to a team for having good field position, even if they can't score a touchdown or a field goal. I think it would add a lot of interest to a football game -- it's enough so that, if two teams are otherwise equal, the one that plays the better positional game would have a narrow advantage. I remember watching one game (this was many years ago) where after three quarters, there had been one field goal and five singles, and the score was 4-4. I had to leave at that point and I never did find out how the game turned out. Does anybody else remember that game? I think one of the teams was the Lions, but I'm not even sure of that. -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines Greg@sdcsvax.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA