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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap
Once the player is playing, it is deemed legal. Reading into it you could argue an illegal number might have been the reason for its illegality, but the question does not say it was an illegal number. |
Note that "illegal number" means "contains a 6 - 9". This makes the jersey illegal, so the penalty (one per person) and timeframe (discovered before the ball becomes live) the same.
If the number must be changed to match the scorebook (or vice versa), that's a different issue, penalty, timeframe, and doesn't make the jersey illegal. Thus, it doesn't apply to the question posed.