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Originally Posted by RichMSN
I was actually wearing a microphone last night, so I was able to explain this fairly easily. I told the U to simply put the ball on the 16.5 but to wait until after I was through the announcement.
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I have always toyed with this on "offsetting" dead ball fouls. Lacking a microphone, I would have the umpire walk off the first penalty and give the signal. Then have the second penalty walked off and give the second signal.
According to the Officials' Manual these fouls should be walked off separately.
Last season in one of those wonderful youth games with Team A at the 1 yard line, Team B encroached, a wound up tight Team A coach started running on the field complaining and was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
We walked off the 1/2 yard penalty to show we saw the encroachment, then the 15 for the unsportsmanlike. To have done any other way would have led to the belief the encroachment was ignored.