Fumblerooski Banned

[pimptastic69 0]

Ref's say it's too confusing...well duh. That's the point of a trick play.

 

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2407322

 

Updated: April 13, 2006, 10:37 AM ET

New rules eliminate scoring opportunity for guards

ESPN.com news services

 

High school offensive linemen looking to score will have to beg their coaches to call tackle eligible plays or insert them as fullbacks at the goal line next season.

 

The football rules committee of The National Federation of State High School Associations has banned the fumblerooski, the Los Angeles Times reported in Thursday's editions.

 

In a successful fumblerooski, the quarterback sets the ball on the ground after the snap. The offensive players fake a play one direction while a guard picks up the ball and runs the other way.

 

The NFL banned the trick play in the 1960s, and college football followed suit more than 10 years ago. Among the memorable plays before the ban was a 29-yard run by Sooners guard Mark Hutson, who scored a touchdown with two minutes to go in Oklahoma's 20-14 loss to Miami in the 1988 Orange Bowl.

 

Among the high school coaches who will have adjust his bag of tricks is Bill Redell of Westlake Village Oaks in Southern California.

 

Last season, one of his guards ran 74 yards for a touchdown, and he told the Times he has used the play more than 20 times since 1994.

 

A former assistant, Mike Sanders, also employs the play.

 

"The times we practiced it, the times we ran it, the kids had a blast," Sanders told the paper. "The players absolutely loved it."

 

But Jerry Diehl, assistant director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, told the Times that the seldom-used play was a burden for officials.

 

"It eliminates confusion in a ballgame," Diehl told the paper of the rules change announced in January.

 

My personal favorite play was when the field goal unit acted like they had too many men on the field and a guy goes sprinting to the sideline, only to catch a pass and walk into the endzone.

[D'ohmer Simpson 0]

I was always partial to the Statue of Liberty.

[Walter34 3]

From the title, I thought Fumbleweed lost it and went on a rampage.

[Fumbleweed 547]

From the title, I thought Fumbleweed lost it and went on a rampage.

 

Don't tempt me, man.....I'm on the edge...........

[Mad Brad 0]

From the title, I thought Fumbleweed lost it and went on a rampage.

 

 

Too funny I was thinking the same thing... LOL MB

[t.j 35]

How can they ban it? It's a fumble, and a recovery, and a run after the recovery.

[Raider 84 29]

[Ravens 03 0]

.....I'm on the edge of getting banned here...........

 

Need any references??

[Fat_Kid 0]

I was always partial to the Statue of Liberty.

 

My personnel favorite is the Annexation of Puerto Rico.

[Captian America 0]

My question is how could a guard run 74 yards without being tackled? Back in the 60's our high school coach had a play that worked almost everytime. When the players would come out of the huddle the center would line up over the ball while the rest of the team would line up over on the other hash mark, the center would stand their by himself looking confused as the defenseive team would wait for the rest of the offense to come over behind the center. The center would bend down and scoop the ball over to the running back and off they would go.

[Chronic Husker 85]

The article failed to mention the most famous fumbelrooski, evah.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumblerooski

[shovelheadt 71]

How can they ban it? It's a fumble, and a recovery, and a run after the recovery.

 

Technically, shouldn't it be downed where the QB puts it? Now if he were to drop it from waist high, then it would be a fumble.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Technically, shouldn't it be downed where the QB puts it? Now if he were to drop it from waist high, then it would be a fumble.

 

His knee is not down.

[t.j 35]

Technically, shouldn't it be downed where the QB puts it?

 

No.

[listen2me 23 1,873]

From the title, I thought Fumbleweed lost it and went on a rampage.

 

same here...

[Thornton Melon 620]

When I played in high school (late 70's - early 80's), you could not advance any fumble that touched the ground. The ball would be spotted where the player recovered it. So how was this play ever legal in high school?

[football_scooter 0]

Don't tempt me, man.....I'm on the edge...........

 

[murf74 461]

My question is how could a guard run 74 yards without being tackled? Back in the 60's our high school coach had a play that worked almost everytime. When the players would come out of the huddle the center would line up over the ball while the rest of the team would line up over on the other hash mark, the center would stand their by himself looking confused as the defenseive team would wait for the rest of the offense to come over behind the center. The center would bend down and scoop the ball over to the running back and off they would go.

 

We used to call that a muddle huddle. Don't ask me why. This is a popular formation on extra points where we used it.

[Captian America 0]

We used to call that a muddle huddle. Don't ask me why. This is a popular formation on extra points where we used it.

 

That's right, thanks Murf, I'm from PA and we would use this play when we would play the teams from Ohio, New York and around the Philadelphia area