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Old Sun Aug 02, 2009, 05:23pm
bigjohn bigjohn is offline
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Many years makes it seem like every year, not this year, OK. Seems like it always is a POE.

From the
http://www.jonheck.com/Articles/PositionStatement.pdf

The helmet-contact penalties are unique in football because
they are the only action penalties that penalize a player for his
own protection. However, many officials and coaches
erroneously perceive the primary purpose of the penalties as
protecting the athlete who gets hit. This is reflected
by one group’s findings that nearly one third of high school
players did not know that it was illegal to tackle with the top
of the helmet or run over an opponent head first.
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