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Originally Posted by andymac
Well, as I said, I don't know the college rules particularly well. However, I know that in high school football in Illinois, if a player fumbles a ball forwards and the ball goes out of bounds...the next play takes place from where the ball was fumbled. The reason for the rule is to keep a player from purposfully fumbling ahead for first downs.
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That's for fumbles caused by the offense, and that one is pretty universal now. I think all levels of play now use it. But defenses can "advance" a fumble by, for instance, knocking it out of a player's hands behind him and to another defender.