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Originally posted by timharris
hello
I was working a game last saturday and had this situaton occur. The offense broke a play for 40 yards and as the running back was about to score there was a persoanl foul by the offense at the 30 yard line, as the white hat i counted the score and accessed the penalty on the next play. Is this the proper procedure for this situation, i seemed to have read this exact play in a casebook sometime ago.
thanks for the help
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It was a live ball foul and should have been penalized from the spot of the foul. Tough call.
Many officials penalize it like you did in order to avoid the anger of the offensive coach.
My technique in trying to avoid these stupid fouls that officials get blamed for -- we didn't do it! -- is to yell out to the players something like "don't hit him!" or "keep it clean" or something to the effect to let them know you are there and looking. The words don't really matter.
I've seen players get some engrossed trying to figure out what the crazy referee is saying until they forget to even think about hitting.