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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
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Reply-To: student@nmtvax.UUCP (Greg Hennessy)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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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