Thread: untimed down?
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Old Fri Sep 17, 2010, 10:22pm
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Originally Posted by yankeesfan View Post
coming off a timeout we had 23 seconds left in the 1st half, 4th down and long. team A punts the ball but we have a block below the waist behind the neutral zone(before ball was kicked) and team B accepts the penalty, we replay 4th down. at this point there is 13 seconds to go in the half. when would the clock start? if it starts on the ready for play we have an untimed down.
CANADIAN RULING:

We'd be under the 3-minute warning. Because there is a penalty application, we'd start the game clock on the snap.

A penalty app is one of 7 elements that cause the game clock to start on the snap on the subsequent play.
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