Eastern Kentucky University Encompass The Athlete Kentucky High School Athletic Association 10-1-1948 The Kentucky High School Athlete, October 1948 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete Recommended Citation Kentucky High School Athletic Association, "The Kentucky High School Athlete, October 1948" (1948). The Athlete. Book 498. http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete/498 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Athlete by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THRILL PACKED SEASON OF 1948 RECENT REQUESTS FOR FOOTBALL RULINGS Sev·eral of the many vequests for football If we were consistent with what is done in rulings have items of nationwide interest. similar cases, this would result in a safety Here are a few which contain such items. if A should take the penalty. It is a case PLAY: A scrimmage kirck comes down on where the ball is awarded to a tea m behind R'1s 5 and is muffed by both teams and is their opponent's goal line and since team is finally forced across the goal line by RI and never given a touchdown for nothing, a safety goes out of bounds over the end line. is substituted. RULING: Ball becomes dead as soon as it PLAY: At the end of the down and with touches anything b~hind the goal line and the dock running, two players of A enter. it is a touchback. This is covered in the last It i1s then noticed that AI is injured and, since sentences of 6-2-8. It is also covered in the · A has had four time-outs, it is a referee's last sentence of the saf,ety-touchback pro­ time-out for repl'acing an injured player. vision (8-5-1). 'I'he first ·sentence of that After the ball is ready for pl·ay before clock arbcle would, if taken alone, caus·e this to has started, two more substitutes of A enter. be a safety. The second sentence should be Are all of t hese legal entries? considered correct. The artide, as first writ­ RULING: Yes. Tlhere might be some doubt ten was not complete and this was discovered about the first two but it would not be practi­ at the last minute. Printing mechanics made cal to ·send such substitutes out of the game it impossible to rewrite the whole article and because an injury is discovered after they the S'crimmage-kick and return-kick were have entered. 'Dhere is no doubt about the included in the last ~sentences to be in har­ last two substitutes. Two substitutes may mony with the kick rule. 'I'he entire article always enter after the ball is ready for play should be rewritten to be more specific and provided the substitution is completed before more ·accurate. the snap. PLAY: On page 51 of Rules Book and Play PLAY: Is ruling for second play on. page 12, Page 7, of the Case Book, reference is 39 of Rules Book correct? made to a situation in which substitutes may RULING: Yes. After an incomplete illegal illegally enter at the expense of a time-out pa;ss, the down counts 1even if the 5-yard only. What are su~h cases? penalty should be declined. Since ball i·s then RULING: There are no s uch cases. This awarded behind A's goal line, it is a safety, statement was placed in the book at a time regardles·s of whether the five yard penalty when the ,college group was insisting that a .is· assessed. coach be permitted to make illegal substitu­ COMMENT: In former years, ball would tions without incurring a loss of 5 yards. At have been taken to the spot of snap and this the la·st minute and after some of the material would not have been a safety. This was part­ had been set in tYVe, we were authorized to ly because t here was no coverage for a situa­ eliminate the situation. The colleges are still tion in whi,ch B might decline the penalty for playing under a provision which permits cer­ an iUegal pass. The current code provides tain illegal substitutions' at the expense of a ·· coverage in the last two sentences of Article time-out. There are no ·such ea ~ ses in the new 4 on Page 35. Thi's coverage makes it neces­ code. ·sary to award the ball at the spot of the PLAY: Snap is from the 50. Runner Al pas's regardless of whether the penalty is advances to B's 40 where he fumbles and accepted or delC!lined. Hence, it is a safety. fumble is recovered by B on theii:· 35. During PLAY: Kl first touches a scrimmage-kick the run, Bl holds. Where is spot of enforce­ while it is on R's 20. RI recovers and advances ment and whose ball? to the 50,· where he fumbles and K2 recovers. RULING: Since this is a foul by the de­ During the run by RI. R Clips on his 35. fense during a run, spot of enforcement is RULING: If K accepts the penalty, it is spot of dead ball (:B ',s 35). Since A was in R's ball with penalty enfor~ ced from spot of pos'session at the time of foul, it is A's ball foul (since this is behind the spot of dead after enforcement. ball) . If K2 declines the penalty then R may PLAY: Runner Al advances for a touch­ choose to take the ball at the spot of fir.st down. During the run, Bl ·holds. What is the touching. ruling if A should take the penalty. COMMENT: TMs is one situation in which RULING: Since a tou~hdown is the grea­ K is damned if he does and damned if he does test advantag·e which can be secured on any not. Fortunately, this combination of cir­ play, A would ne¥er take the penalty. Hence, cumst ances will not occur very often and, the question is one of academic interest only. (Continued on Page 5) The Kentucky High School Athlete Official Organ of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association VOL. XI-No. 3 OCTOBER, 1948 $1.00 Per Y€8!1" -THE NEW FOOTBALL CODE Early football meetings and· pre-season re­ in wording have been received but not many ports reveal interesting facts about the 1948 of these are considered serious. The follow­ football code. ing provisions need clarification or corre­ The new code with all related publications ction. i1s being used in quantities which is far in Does any foul result only in a charged time­ ex;cess of that for any other year. All of the out? The 1ast sentence under Comment on states which used the Fedlerration football Rule 3, page 57 of the Rules Book and Play rules in past years are using the new code 12 on page 7 of the Oase Book indicate·s tha:t this year. In addition, Indiana is using it an illegal substitution might sometimes be for all high school contests in that state. made merely at the expense of a time-out. Arkansas 'has announced that beginning De­ This is not the case. These statement·s occur cember lOth (close of the pl.'esent football because they were written at a time when season) Arkans'as high :s.chool contests in all the Collegiape .group was insisting that cer­ sports induding football, will be played under tain illegal substitutions be permitt•ed with­ National Federation rules. Massachusetts has out a penalty of 5 yards. This was the case taken similar action and s•ent a representative under last year's Collegiate rules. It was to the s·elctional football meeting in Maine. contended that a coach ou~ht to be able to Comments at the early meetings indicate insert a whole backfield when the clock is a high degree of satisfaction with the new running and not haVle his team lose 5 yards. code. Thes•e comments •show a desire to fur­ 'Ilhe substitution rul·e was first written to their improve the code by eliminating several indude this provision (over the protest of provisions which were adopted as conces­ Federation representatives). At the last min­ sions which would permit use of the code by ute, the editors were informed that this pro­ both college and high school. Unless the Na­ vi'sion could be left out of the joint code and tional Collegiate Football Committee chooses the rule was changed ·accordingly. However, to fulfill its part of the agr:eoement by adopt­ some of the supplementary material had ing the new code for 1949, it is the general already been written on the basis of the ori­ opinion that these chang·es should be made gina.l wording and it was too late to make a at the next meeting of the National Federa­ change or els'e the statement was inadver­ tion Football Committee. With such changes, tently overlooked in the rush which accom­ there is almost unanimous agreement that panied the printing of the many publications. the code can be made the equal or the superi­ Can a safety result when a scrimmage kick or of any previous code. goes into R's end zone? When a scrimmage Almost without e~ception, the high schools kick goes into R's end zone, the ball becomes will use th:e current code as written, even dead immediately and it is a tol,lchback.