Re: Lake Taylor won
Read my post on the "blocked field goal problem," this happens much more often than you might suspect. Fans, players and even coaches are ignorant of the kicking rules in high school because they watch too much NFL. I've even been at a game where I saw the officials blow a kick dead in this very situation and the team got a rekick due to an inadvertent whistle (still missed it and after the touchback the defense end up with the ball in better field position--no one in the crowd knew what the heck was going on).
The thing to remember in high school is this:
There is no definition of a field goal attempt in high school. The term has no meaning in the rules. What we commonly call a field goal attempt is a SCRIMMAGE kick. Punts, place kicks and drop kicks are all legal scrimmage kicks and are treated EXACTLY the same in the rules except that place kicks and drop kicks can score three points if they pass through the uprights. Also remember that a field goal try is not the same as an extra point try. The play is over on an extra point once the kick fails. Most high school "field goal" block teams end up defending a lot more extra points than field goals.
So I submit to you that if you had the Monacan kids in a classroom sometime this week before the game they would have been able to tell you that you need to recover the ball after a blocked field goal, but that sometimes adrenaline shuts off your brain, and if most of us had been out there we wouldn't have been the lone Chief to remember to go get on the football.