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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
Personally, I think all fouls should be applied from Point Ball Held. If RB gains 9 yards on 1D and then there is a hold flagged, then yes, the PE is the LS.
I think PBH is the best because of the simplicity for all to understand: - Whatever you gain legally you keep
- Whatever you gain illegally is open to acceptance/declination of the penalty by non-offending team
- Whenever a foul happens, find where the ball was. This is the spot you report to the R.
Penalty application in Canada is very easy to do. From what I read about the ABO, we have it easy. |
PBH is a philosophically good enforcement spot for many situations, but it does have the disadvantage that an official has to see it at the same time as the infraction occurs, which may be some distance away and not seen by the same official. (I thought a penalty horn would be good for that, but there'd still be time lags.)
PBH would be a gyp enforcement spot for most cases of illegal contact against receivers downfield, and it would be dumb in many other cases of contact fouls by the defense during a run, and it would be silly for non-contact and roughness calls of many types not affecting play directly. However, I do wish it were instituted in USAn football for some situations.
3-and-1 (all but one) is a better approximation of justice than PBH would be in some cases of common running play, not all. 3-and-1 has the advantage that the covering official needs to see either the ball (for where it becomes dead) or the foul, but not both simultaneously.
Robert