Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cca!godot!bruce From: bruce@godot.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Rules question Message-ID: <645@godot.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 23:42:10 EST Article-I.D.: godot.645 Posted: Tue Dec 18 23:42:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:21:36 EST References: <1032@ihuxw.UUCP> Reply-To: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 Summary: It happened this year; I saw it on TV. With only a few seconds left in the first half, one team (sorry, don't remember the teams) scores and kicks off. They try a squib kick; the ball is a short looping kick and one of the up men calls for a fair catch (on a kickoff!) at his own 45. They elect to go for a free kick attempt at a field goal. Everyone was confused. Everyone starts to line up at the line of scrimmage for a conventional field goal. They finally get straightened out. The defensive team must line up ten yards downfield. The kicker kicks from the line of scrimmage, but he is not allowed a tee. He may (and did) use a holder (beats drop-kicking!). He missed the attempt at what would have been a 65-yard field goal. -- --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@godot.arpa