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Old Sat Aug 21, 2004, 05:12am
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Originally posted by Bubba10Dara
The offense is lined up on the line ball, the coach relizes he only has 10 men on the field, sends #81 into the game, he runs onto the field, behind the QB and gets set on the line.

Is that illegal sub
We have something called the gates. When the gates are up, no further substitution is allowed - offensive or defensive. You have to play that play with the players are on the field. For the offense, they may reduce the number of players required to be on the line by the same number of players they're short.

How do the gates come up? The two side guys extend their arms out from their shoulders, much like a school crossing guard, when two or more offensive players have broken the huddle, or after the RFP whistle in a no0huddle offense.

And we play with 12 players, so having 11 is short, 13 is a foul. 13 in the huddle is ok as long as one guy runs off after two or more break the huddle.
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