Tag: scrimmage kick

Rule 10, Section 4, Article 2 EXCEPTION

EXCEPTION: The basic spot may, at the option of the offended team, be the succeeding spot for fouls by K during a free or scrimmage kick down (other than kick catch interference) prior to the end of the kick when K will not be next to put the ball in play.

Rule 9, Section 4, Article 5

Running into or roughing the kicker or holder. A defensive player shall neither run into the kicker nor holder, which is contact that displace the kicker or holder without roughing; nor block, tackle or charge into the kicker of a scrimmage kick, or the place-kick holder, other than when:

a. Contact is unavoidable because it is not reasonably certain that a kick will be made.

b. The defense touches the kick near the kicker and contact is unavoidable.

c. Contact is slight and is partially caused by movement of the kicker.

d. Contact is caused by R being blocked into the kicker or holder by K.

Rule 6, Section 5, Article 6

While any free kick is in flight in or beyond the neutral zone to the receiver’s goal line or any scrimmage kick is in flight beyond the neutral zone to the receivers’s goal line, K shall not:

a. Touch the ball or R, unless blocked into the ball or R, or to ward off a blocker; or

b . Obstruct R’s path to the ball.

This prohibition applies even when no fair-catch signal is given, but it does not apply after a free kick has been touched by a receiver, or after a scrimmage kick has been touched by a receiver who was clearly beyond the neutral zone at the time of touching.

EXCEPTION: K may catch, touch, muff or bat a scrimmage kick in flight beyond the neutral zone if no player of R is in position to catch the ball.

Rule 10, Section 5, Article 1

The following fouls have special enforcement provisions and options for the offended team:

a. Free kick out of bounds untouched by R. (6-1-9)

b. Kick-catching interference. (6-5-6)

c. Unfair acts. (9-9)

d. A foul by the opponent of the scoring team on a successful try. (8-3-5)

e. A foul by the opponents of the scoring team on a successful field goal. (8-4-3)

f. Fouls that occur during or after a touchdown scoring play. (8-2-2, 8-2-3, 8-2-4 and 8-2-5)

g. Roughing the passer. (9-4-4)

h. Roughing the kicker or holder. (9-4-5)

i. Roughing the snapper. (9-4-6)

j. Fouls by K during a free or scrimmage kick down prior to the end of the kick. (10-4-2 EXCEPTION)

Rule 9, Section 7, Article 2

No player shall bat a loose ball other than a pass or fumble in flight, or a low scrimmage kick in flight which he is attempting to block in or behind the expanded neutral zone.

EXCEPTION: A K player may bat toward his own goal line a grounded scrimmage kick which is beyond the neutral zone and may also bat toward his own goal line a scrimmage kick in flight beyond the neutral zone, if no R player is in position to catch the ball.

Rule 6, Section 2, Article 1

K may punt, drop kick or place kick from in or behind the neutral zone before team possession has changed. It is not necessary to be in a scrimmage kick formation to execute a legal scrimmage kick. K may not punt, drop kick or place kick from beyond the neutral zone. R may not punt, drop kick, or place kick.