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Originally posted by 7Rock
This happened in our game on friday night.
We are attempting a PAT. Ball is snapped. Ref blows whistle as kicker kicks it through the uprights. Call is defense has 12 men on the field. Ref takes the point away and makes team kick again.
Was that the right call, or should he have given the kicking team the option of letting the play stand?
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NFHS Rules:
If the call was illegal participation (12 men on the field who are participating), the game official messed up the call in two ways.
1. Official should have counted 12 BEFORE the ball was snapped and he should have killed the play and penalized for illegal substition. Maybe this is what he was doing but just had a REALLY late whistle.
2. Official should NOT have forced a re-kick. He should have offered the following three options.
a. Accept penalty and replay the down.
b. Accept penalty and mark it off on the kick-off.
c. Decline the penalty.