Ivy League to be laboratory for NCAA kickoff exper

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Ivy League to be laboratory for NCAA kickoff exper

The Ivy League is going retro with its football, or least one aspect of it.The FCS conference on Wednesday to place kickoffs at the 40-yard line for Craig Biggio Jersey league games next season. The idea is to make kickoffs safer by creating more touchbacks. The NCAA will review the results of the one-year experiment after the season.MORE: Fans of a J.R. Richard Jersey certain age remember that kickoffs were from the 40 for decades, before being moved back to the 35, and then the 30, to boost returns. A subsequent increase in reported injuries on kickoffs, particularly concu sions, has led the NCAA and NFL to move kicks up to the 35, where kickers can more easily boot the ball through the end zone.There also has been a movement to Lance McCullers Jersey get rid of kickoffs entirely. Moving the ball back to the 40 could turn out to be a worthwhile compromise.MORE: One important,old-school aspect of the Ivy experiment:Touchbacks will come out to the 20 rather than the 25, which is the current NCAA rule. That's an incentive for the Jimmy Wynn Jersey kicking team to send the ball deep, rather thanpooch kick and create a return as it tries to pin an opponent inside the 25-yard line.On the flip side,a kick from the 40 might encourage teams to try more onside kicks, and maybe pull off the type of trickeration Alabama sprung on Clemson in last season' Jose Cruz Jr. Jersey s national championship game:Source:
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