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You can easily handle this by rephrasing your penalty announcement. I had this happen in a freshman game about 6 years ago and it worked just fine. We talked about it with the official of course and it never happened again.
Instead of saying "dead ball foul, false start offense, 5-yard penalty, it remains 1st down" we changed it to something like...
"prior to the snap, false start offense....." (something like the NFL does)
The coaches knew we had a flag and were expecting something to be announced any way and were OK with the mistake because we got it right.
Now if you also had a foul on defense during the play then you might need to think about rule 1.6 and handle it the best way you see fit depending on the situation.
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