[Husker] Incomplete touchdown pass

[Aaron Wolfson]

It used to be that *was* the rule, if I'm remembering correctly. At some
point in the past few years, they made that change (in the pros, too). I
don't have a problem with the rule as long as they call it consistently,
which I think they do.

Aaron

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A lot of chatter about the catch in the end zone that was ruled incomplete
> and no touchdown.  Per the NCAA rulebook, a touchdown occurs:
>
> "When a player catches a foward pass in the opponent's end zone."
>
> So you have to go the definition of what is a catch which is Article 7A.
> One of the stipulations of a catch is:
>
> "Loss of ball simultaneous to returning to the ground is not a catch,
> interception, or recovery."
>
> I had always thought that once the receiver had possesion and a foot down
> in the end zonce, that a touchdown had occurred and the play was over and
> whatever happened after that was irrelevant.  Not so per the rules above.  A
> legal catch was not made and therefore no touchdown.  It was the correct
> call.  Rats.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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