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Originally Posted by Brandon Kincer
Certain penalties include the loss of right to replay a down. It also states in the rulebook that no penalty causes the offending team to lose the ball.my question is if it is 4th and 5 and the offense commits one of these fouls, how is possesion handled and how is the penalty enforced?
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It isn't the penalty itself that causes a team to lose the ball on 4th down. It is the fact that they haven't reached the line to gain after 4th down and they aren't allowed to replay that down.
Example:
(a) 3/10, or (b) 4/10, at the A-20. A1 runs to the A-34 and then throws an illegal forward pass that falls incomplete.
(a) A's ball 4/1 at the A-29.
(b) B's ball 1/10 at the A-29.