Mini camp updates

[Logan007]

 

Think of it this way...any ball kicked through the other team's endzone is a point.  

 

Not true completely.  The ball has to be touched.

 

Actually, that's only during a kickoff that it needs to be touched.  Any other time it just needs to be kicked through the end zone.

 

"In Canadian football, a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone. It is also a single if the kick travels through the end zone or goes out of bounds in the end zone without being touched, except on a kickoff. After conceding a single, the receiving team is awarded possession of the ball at the 35-yard line of its own end of the field.

Singles are not awarded in the following situations:

• if a ball is downed in the end zone after being intercepted in the end zone
• if a ball is fumbled outside the end zone
• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)
• when a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without being touched

In all these cases the defending team is awarded possession of the ball at the 25-yard line."

[Samcanadian]

Yeah, for a newcomer to the CFL the only rule with the rouge he really has to know is that if it's a tie game and Robert Marve drives down to the 15 with 2 seconds left on the clock and the field goal team is coming out...the Bombers are probably going to win regardless if the FG is made or not.  

[Samcanadian]

Of course, this can happen too.

 

 

 

[TrueBlue]

 

 

Think of it this way...any ball kicked through the other team's endzone is a point.  

 

Not true completely.  The ball has to be touched.

 

Actually, that's only during a kickoff that it needs to be touched.  Any other time it just needs to be kicked through the end zone.

 

"In Canadian football, a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone. It is also a single if the kick travels through the end zone or goes out of bounds in the end zone without being touched, except on a kickoff. After conceding a single, the receiving team is awarded possession of the ball at the 35-yard line of its own end of the field.

Singles are not awarded in the following situations:

• if a ball is downed in the end zone after being intercepted in the end zone
• if a ball is fumbled outside the end zone
• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)
• when a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without being touched

In all these cases the defending team is awarded possession of the ball at the 25-yard line."

 

 

I stand corrected. Shouldn't have left out, "on a kickoff"...

[Jaxon]

 

• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)

 

This isn't 100% accurate.  It is true if the ball hits the uprights in the air.  If it bounces first, then hits the goal post, it is a live ball. 

 

I was sitting with a bunch of senior rules officials in the stands at the Canada Cup in Saskatoon in 2009 when this happened.  There was quite a discussion between the coaches and the game officials, as the coach was arguing that the ball was dead, but the game officials ruled it live and awarded a rouge when it was downed in the endzone.   The senior rules officials that I was with verified that the game officials got it right. 

[Logan007]

 

 

• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)

 

This isn't 100% accurate.  It is true if the ball hits the uprights in the air.  If it bounces first, then hits the goal post, it is a live ball. 

 

I was sitting with a bunch of senior rules officials in the stands at the Canada Cup in Saskatoon in 2009 when this happened.  There was quite a discussion between the coaches and the game officials, as the coach was arguing that the ball was dead, but the game officials ruled it live and awarded a rouge when it was downed in the endzone.   The senior rules officials that I was with verified that the game officials got it right. 

 

It's from wikipedia so take it for what it is.

[Jacquie]

There is a downloadable copy of the rule book at CFL.ca in the Fan Zone section. They have the 2013 version still up and here's the link: http://cfl.uploads.mrx.ca/league/downloads/en/downloads/2014/01/2013-cfl-rule-book2014015205.pdf