[jaybird]

Just talk to a friend that was running the chains on that game and he said that, on that play he ask the line judge about that and the LJ said that it was not a automatic 1st down in high school.

Two obvious things wrong with this statement.

1) Based on normal positions, if the guy on the chains asked the line judge a question, was it after the game or did he scream across the field at him?

2) If a legitimate game official said DPI did not include an automatic first down, he is either incompetent, they are using a different set of rules than NFHS or there was a misunderstanding.