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Old Fri Sep 18, 2009, 08:45am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by whitehat View Post
Touchdown stands. A has choice of having 15 yard DPI penalty enforced on the try or succeeding kickoff. Obviously the automatic first down part does not apply here.
Right. Ordinarily, DPI is previous spot enforcement, and A would have to decline the penalty in order to take the result of the play.

But during a scoring play, 8-2-2 applies:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rule 8-2-2
If during a touchdown-scoring play in which there is no change of
possession, the opponent of the scoring team commits a foul, the scoring team
may accept the results of the play and have the penalty enforced from the succeeding
spot or may choose to have the penalty enforced on the subsequent kickoff.
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