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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Question on rules
Message-ID: <671@hao.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 02:57:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 02:57:21 1983
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 don't think this was ever legal and I'm sure I never 
saw it happen. However, on that I could be wrong. I have seen *missed* field 
goals returned, especially before they changed the rule where a missed 
field goal was a touchback. Then, it was not uncommon for field goal
attempts to be made from outside the 50 yard line. In that case it was
necessary to have a return man back there to prevent the kicking team
from recovering the free ball for a touchdown.

		   GREG
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