Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nmtvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!unm-cvax!nmtvax!student From: student@nmtvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: new football play proposal Message-ID: <230@nmtvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 16:56:24 EST Article-I.D.: nmtvax.230 Posted: Thu Dec 20 16:56:24 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 08:30:43 EST References: <> Reply-To: student@nmtvax.UUCP (Greg Hennessy) Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro Lines: 25 Summary: it was sugguested by jts@brunix.UUCP that > I got the idea for a new play. I call it the "onsides punt." It would >be an offensive weapon used by a punting team. >..... >....... > A punter could take advantage of this by driving >a low hard punt just over the heads of his own linemen in the hope that it >would hit a player on the receiving team and become a live ball. I've seen >this happen a few times on normal punts; the punt isn't caught on the fly and >.... > Is it a change >of possesion, i.e., would the clock be stopped? > >John Stasko >..!decvax!brunix!jts >Brown U. It is considered a "muff." If the team that punted recovers the ball they cannot advance the ball and there is a stoppage of time to change possesion. Sincerely; Greg Hennessy; ..ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!student