America Gave Return Kicks The Boot

Among the least remembered tactics in American football history is the return kick, which was little used for fifty or more years before the NCAA eliminated it in 1967. Primarily used on punt returns when teams had an effective punter as its return man, a return kick was legal whenever a player took possession of the ball on a kickoff, punt, fumble recovery, or interception and immediately punted the ball back to the team that just lost control of the ball. The idea of kicking the ball back to t — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P. Brown of Football Archaeology brings examples of the return kick back to life. Canadians still practice the rule and it can make for an exciting advent that springs up during a kick as shown in the example video.