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Originally Posted by Husker John
During our youth football game covered by High School Rules, we had our placekicker hit by a defender during the try. No roughing the kicker penalty was called. From my view, the defender did not touch the ball and was not blocked into the kicker.
The white hat said that under high school rules the defenders can hit the kicker without a roughing penalty being called. Is this correct, or there certain circumstances that allows this?  |
Not to excuse anything wrong the WH may have done, but frequently the officials at youth games are less experienced officials (especially at the wings), and may not know the rules as well as a salty HS officials. In our area there is a shortage of officials for youth football for a variety of reasons (the parents the main reason), and we have very few WH's that have more than 2 or 3 years under their belt.