NCAA SOCCER RULES CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
STUDY GUIDE
●● What is relation between the rules and an approved ruling?
Answer: Statutory law and a decision of the Supreme Court
●● What is a live ball?
Answer: A ball in play. A pass, kick or fumble that has not yet touched
the ground is a live ball in flight.
●● What is a live ball in flight?
Answer: A pass, kick or fumble that has not yet touched the ground.
●● What is a dead ball?
Answer: A ball not in play
●● What is a loose ball?
Answer: A live ball not in player possession during:
1. A running play.
2. A scrimmage or free kick before possession is gained or regained or
the ball is dead by rule.
,3. The interval after a legal forward pass is touched and before it
becomes complete, incomplete or intercepted.
●● When a live ball is loose during a forward pass play who may bat the
ball?
Answer: When a live ball is loose during a forward pass play before it
becomes complete, any player eligible to touch the ball may bat it in any
direction.
●● Who is eligible to touch, catch, or recover a ball that is loose from a
fumble or backwards pass?
Answer: All players are eligible to touch, catch, or recover a ball that is
loose from a fumble or a backward pass, but eligibility to touch a ball
loose from a kick is governed by kick rules and eligibility to touch a
forward pass is governed by pass rules.
●● When the 40 second play clock is running, when is a dead ball ready
for play?
Answer: When an official places the ball at a hash mark or between the
inbounds marks and steps away to his position.
●● When the play clock is set at 25 seconds, when is a dead ball ready
for play?
Answer: When the referee sounds his whistle and either signals to start
the game clock or signals that the ball is ready for play
, ●● When the play clock is set at 40 seconds following an injury to a
defensive team player, when is a dead ball ready for play?
Answer: When the referee sounds his whistle and either signals to start
the game clock or signals that the ball is ready for play
●● What is blocking?
Answer: Obstructing an opponent by contacting him with any part of the
blocker's body.
●● What is pushing?
Answer: Blocking an opponent with open hands
●● What is a block below the waist?
Answer: A block in which the force of the initial contact is below the
waist of an opponent who has one or both feet on the ground. When in
question, the contact is below the waist.
●● If a blocker makes contact above the waist and then slides below the
waist, what is the ruling?
Answer: This blocker has not committed a block below the waist. If the
blocker first contacts the opposing player's hands at the waist or above,
it is a legal "above the waist" block.
EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
STUDY GUIDE
●● What is relation between the rules and an approved ruling?
Answer: Statutory law and a decision of the Supreme Court
●● What is a live ball?
Answer: A ball in play. A pass, kick or fumble that has not yet touched
the ground is a live ball in flight.
●● What is a live ball in flight?
Answer: A pass, kick or fumble that has not yet touched the ground.
●● What is a dead ball?
Answer: A ball not in play
●● What is a loose ball?
Answer: A live ball not in player possession during:
1. A running play.
2. A scrimmage or free kick before possession is gained or regained or
the ball is dead by rule.
,3. The interval after a legal forward pass is touched and before it
becomes complete, incomplete or intercepted.
●● When a live ball is loose during a forward pass play who may bat the
ball?
Answer: When a live ball is loose during a forward pass play before it
becomes complete, any player eligible to touch the ball may bat it in any
direction.
●● Who is eligible to touch, catch, or recover a ball that is loose from a
fumble or backwards pass?
Answer: All players are eligible to touch, catch, or recover a ball that is
loose from a fumble or a backward pass, but eligibility to touch a ball
loose from a kick is governed by kick rules and eligibility to touch a
forward pass is governed by pass rules.
●● When the 40 second play clock is running, when is a dead ball ready
for play?
Answer: When an official places the ball at a hash mark or between the
inbounds marks and steps away to his position.
●● When the play clock is set at 25 seconds, when is a dead ball ready
for play?
Answer: When the referee sounds his whistle and either signals to start
the game clock or signals that the ball is ready for play
, ●● When the play clock is set at 40 seconds following an injury to a
defensive team player, when is a dead ball ready for play?
Answer: When the referee sounds his whistle and either signals to start
the game clock or signals that the ball is ready for play
●● What is blocking?
Answer: Obstructing an opponent by contacting him with any part of the
blocker's body.
●● What is pushing?
Answer: Blocking an opponent with open hands
●● What is a block below the waist?
Answer: A block in which the force of the initial contact is below the
waist of an opponent who has one or both feet on the ground. When in
question, the contact is below the waist.
●● If a blocker makes contact above the waist and then slides below the
waist, what is the ruling?
Answer: This blocker has not committed a block below the waist. If the
blocker first contacts the opposing player's hands at the waist or above,
it is a legal "above the waist" block.
