[Husker] Last play of the Texas game question (or two) (fwd)

[Dick Karre]

Smith, William wrote:
> I don't know if this is what the original post meant by "free kick"... but my sense of this term has always been the that a team may use a "free kick", much like a kickoff, to attempt an FG after a fair catch (including a fair catch from a kickoff.)

> This option is seldom used.  I don't think I've ever seen it in all my years watching football.  But I do hear about it.  Imagine a team ahead by 3 points or less, in the final minute of the game, facing fourth down on their own five yard line.  It's certainly possible.  

I believe this is exclusively an NFL rule. After a fair catch, the 
receiving team may attempt a free kick to score a field goal. I can 
remember seeing it once or twice - and I've been watching NFL football 
for over 50 years - before they moved the goal posts to the end line. I 
don't believe the college rules allow this. In any event, it would not 
have applied Saturday because NU did not make a fair catch.
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Dick Karre
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