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Old Sun Feb 21, 2010, 09:03pm
Welpe Welpe is offline
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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman View Post
The more interesting question here is not the type of foul but when the ball is declared dead. We had at least one thread on here where one or more posters' answer was that the play is whistled dead as soon as you realize what's gone on (i.e. after the ball becomes live but before the down's normal termination), but that the foul is one deemed to occur as the ball was put in play, and the ball is retroactively ruled not to have been put in play.
That is not the proper procedure for this foul. Illegal participation is a live ball foul and it does not kill the play.
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