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Originally posted by Whistles & Stripes
Bryan, a volunteer coach, moved the yard marker closer to the line of scrimmage, and officials signaled for a first down without taking an actual measurement. The misdeed was noticed by Harbor City Narbonne coaches a week later while studying their videotape of the game, and they couldn't understand why referees didn't measure on such a close play.
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How does a coach do this? I don't mean in the moral sense, but in the actual sense. I don't know about you guys, but we usually have 4 people (but sometimes 3) on the chains. But there is always somebody at either end of the chains, and one for the box.
So given that there is someone there, how does a coach move the yard marker, without support from the guy on the end of it? And if he moved a yard marker in the sense of a number on the side of the field, what were the officials using? Why were they looking at the numbers instead of the chains?