Oregon has been approved by the NFHS to experiment (and tweek) this rule during the 2004 and 2005 football seasons. We have purposly written it differently than the NCAA rule as the philosopy of the NFHS is that "no foul goes unpunished!" Therefore, the NCAA blanket "the penalty is declined by rule" for all fouls occuring after a change of possession would not work for NFHS purposes. Rather, under the Oregon rule,
all fouls occuring after a change of possession are enforced on the succeeding spot.
There are roughly 20 NFHS rules effected by the change, however the bottom line is this:
1) All fouls occuring before any change of possession are enforced the same as they were in 2003.
2) All fouls occuring after any change of possession are enforced on the succeeding spot.
3) If acceptance of a foul results in a safety, the offended team is awarded 1 point with no yardage assessment.
4) If a double foul occurs the try is repeated. However if both teams foul
and B has gained possession with "clean hands," B may accept the A foul (creating a double foul) and replay the TRY (with A putting the ball in play) OR, B may decline the A foul and the B foul will be enforced on the succeeding spot.
Read it, digest it, comment on it. There are 23 case plays for your reading enjoyment.
We welcome any and all comments as you are looking at a working draft.
Thank you in advance for your comments!
This link will take you to a PDF version that is printable.
http://www.osaa.org/broadcast/fbexp.pdf
[Edited by KWH on Jul 2nd, 2004 at 02:00 PM]