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Originally posted by Daryl H. Long
What caused the clock to stop in the situation?
The foul? NO...Fund III Dead Ball #2: no live ball foul causes the ball to become dead.
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OOps... and Daryl is usually so good at these.
"No live ball foul causes the ball to become dead." Yes, that's correct. The play ending on its own caused the ball to become dead. This fundamental does NOT say, "No live ball foul causes the CLOCK to stop."
A live ball foul DOES (very often, in fact) give us reason to stop the clock AFTER the ball becomes dead on it's own. Consider by way of example ye olde regular boring play - 1st and 10, run up the middle for 2 yards, a holding penalty on the play. Did the penalty cause the ball to become dead? No, of course not. Did the penalty give us reason to stop the clock after it became dead? Of course it did.
So, to answer your initial question - what caused the ball to become dead? The answer is, in fact (and in both the initial sitch and my simple example) - THE FOUL.
(And further... when do we normally start the clock after a FOUL caused us to stop the clock to administer it? On the ready. In both cases.)