From: freshlt@quig11.alleg.edu (Timothy Freshly)
Subject: Re: Rules question (trivia?)
Organization: Allegheny College
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:06:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.200850.815@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>  
piz@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (G G ZIPFEL) writes:
> 
> 	You Make the Call:
> 
> 	It's first and ten at the 25. The Steelers are 25 yards from the
> 	winning touchdown. Brister hits Foster for a 3 yard screen pass.
> 	Foster scrambles down the sideline, and dives for the corner of  
the
>         end zone with the ball held close to his chest. After passing  
the
> 	goal line, he extends the ball into the end zone from out of  
bounds
> 	and lands with the ball in the end zone, and his body out of  
bounds.
> 	The ball never passed over the goal line, but did end up in the  
end 
> 	zone. Touchdown?
> 
> 
>    p=path of ball
> 
> 
>         |p-----------------------------------------------|
>         |p                 -          -                  |
>         |p                 -          -                  |
>         |p                 -          -                  |
>         |p                 -          -                  |
>         p                  -          -                  |
>        p|------------------------------------------------|
>        p|                                                |
>         |p                                               |
>         |                                                |
>         |                                                |
>         |                                                |
>         |------------------------------------------------|
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Zip   Steelers in 92!          | Illinois Basketball: More three point 
>       Bubby's Back!!!!         | shooters than you can shake a stick at!
> "I didn't lose, the Team lost" - Coach



	No.  The ball must (when being run in) cross the plane of the goal  
line.  In the above graphic, the ball would be spotted at approx. the 1/2  
yard line.  On a paas play (see below) the receiver must land with two  
feet in bounds or be ruled that he would have if not fof contact by the  
defense.  The path of the ball, in this case, does not matter as long as  
the receiver gets two feet in bounds.

         |------------------------------------------------|
         |   QB throws      -          -                  |
         |  p               -          -                  |
         | p                -          -                  |
         |p                 -          -                  |
         p                  -          -                  |
        p|------------------------------------------------|
  reception                                               |
         | (2 feet in)                                    |
         |                                                |
         |                                                |
         |                                                |
         |------------------------------------------------|

	TOUCHDOWN


				Tim
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