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Originally posted by mbcrowder
I worked 3 games on Thursday with no visible clock. 3 man crew, so we had the LJ run it.
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I don't want to be critical of your mechanics and maybe it was just a mistype on your part but there shouldn't be a LJ on a 3-man crew. If you use the following link
http://www.nfhs.org/PDF/Football/ThreeOfficials.pdf it will take you to the NF 3-man crew responsibilities. It was a little hard to find and much less fun to try to use once your used to 4-man and 5-man.
We normally use a running clock during lower level games where there is no field clock. For an 8-minute quarter whoever is timing would put 150% of the time or 12 minutes on his clock and only stop it for timeouts. Only in the 2nd and 4th quarters would we run the clock normally after the 4-minute warning. We have had one guy run the clock normally and another time the same quarter with the running clock and they normally are less than 30 seconds apart at the end of the quarter. That was enough proof for the old-timers who like to run it that way. It sure isn't the greatest way to time a game but they were able to time a game with a second hand on their watch.