[Mark Padgett]

According to the note following NF rule 3.1.1, a team can continue with only one player if the officials feel that team still has a chance to win the game. I can see this happening maybe if that team has a huge lead with just a few seconds left, although they would violate every time they had to inbound the ball, unless they threw it in off an opponent and then recovered it, I guess.

While I would be incredibly surprised if anyone here ever had that happen, let me ask all of you this. What is the least number of players you've ever had left on a team and played out the game? There have been a few times over the year I've had rec teams finish with three players, but that's usually when they started with only five or six. And once a few years ago, I did have a kids rec game in which a team started with six, had two foul out and then had two get injured with just under three minutes to go. They were behind by ten at the time and lost by just fourteen. Not too bad, actually.