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I coach a youth team of 8-9 yr olds. We had a bad crew working our last game and I thought I understood to rules well. We play under HSFED rules, with only weight and mercy rules being added on top of those.
We got a penalty at the end of the game with 45 sec left, for hitting the center when the other team was trying to take a knee. The Umpire said we could not contact the center when the QB was taking a knee. Oh, the hit cause the other team to fumble, which we recovered (NG).
1st I have no idea where that rule is? Any help?
2nd If the other team does not tell the D line this is going to occur, how can this be enforced?
Did the Umpire and his crew confuse this with some other formation?
Is there a review that can be requested or sent to some sort of evaluation process? This group was awful and the group they come from needs to be aware of it. Other causes of concern, they lost the down count 9 times, said free blocking zone was 4 yds deep and 7 wide, holding on defense was 5 yd penalty while it was 10 on Offense, we could not have MORE than 7 on the LOS, huddles may proceed with as many players as a team wants - not a timeout near the coaches box, the other team huddled 14-16 players and would break the huddle and the extra players would run off the field- many times 1 or 2 were still on field as the snap occured- no flag, coaches could go out on field to give play calls to the players - again no time out called. I believe these guys were just dumb, idiots and not conspiring against us but it looks bad...
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