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Originally Posted by Barcelona
JasonTX - well, but in scenarios two and three, the ball is dead "outside" goalline. It is moved there by officials. And my question is, whether those moves are OK (and for example also what point of the ball should be halved - sure no matter which it is, where previous spot is on 9-yard-line, but becomes important when dealing with inches)
ljdave - yes, that is actually what I was "asking". But I was writing (or better said thinking  about NCAA rules and there is nothing like that (at least not written, may be that the sense is same). And thanks for answer regarding third scenario (well, if right and under NCAA rules |
Now you're trying to get this into rocket science.
When marking off a penalty the distance that is being halved would depend upon which direction we are going to enforce the penalty. If going backwards toward your own goalline then logic (it's not written) would have us use the back of the ball since using the front part may put the ball into the end zone, which can't happen and then if we are going toward the opponents goalline we'd use the front part. Now there is a rule under unfair acts: If a team repeatedly commits fouls that can be penalized only by halving the distance to its goalline. The penalty is: The referee may take any action he deems equitable, including assessing a penalty, awarding a score, or suspending or forfeiting the game. I have never heard of a game reaching that point and I can guarantee you that you will probably never see it get to that point. We're going to move the ball even if it's just a 1/32 of an inch
On situation 3 the ball will be placed in the spot where it becomes dead and then the chains would move to the "new" forward part of the ball.