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Originally posted by Bob M.
REPLY: Jim, I had the same thought when I read the POTD this morning. The only thing I could come up with to defend the Federation (and you know what lengths I go to to defend them! ), is that they mean that the yardage associated with the penalties "cancels" even though the fouls themselves don't.
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NFHS wants all unsportsmanlike penalties to be enforced. Rule 10-2-1 on double fouls that cancel specifically excludes unsportsmanlike and nonplayer fouls and 10-2-3 states that "ALL" unsportsmanlike fouls are to be administered.
Now it can look pretty sloppy and requires some use of timing to do it correctly. For each foul there is a fifteen-yard walkoff or if a half-the-distance, the distance penalized. The fouls are enforced in order of occurrence which means you must establish among the crew the time of each foul and enforce in that order. I always try to avoid a half-the-distance situation when the number of fouls between the teams is even by giving the order to move the ball away from a half-the-distance situation.
The best I can figure for properly enforcing and communicating why you are walking from and to the same spot is to signal after each walkoff and somehow let the noisemaker in the pressbox know why it is being done that way.