[Husker] Incomplete touchdown pass

[Smith, William]

I"ll say the rule is appropriate at stands.  The same standards that determine pass completion should apply to the endzone as well as the rest of the field.  


Bill Smith
Towson MD
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From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of David Strong [gbrlist at yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:53 PM
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Subject: [Husker] Incomplete touchdown pass

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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