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Old Sun Sep 02, 2012, 11:32pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman View Post
Did an official sound a whistle? If so, it still shouldn't be interntional grounding, but the inadvertent whistle during a backward pass means the passing team can choose to have the down count where the pass originated from -- which if he was trying to avoid a sack is not what they'd choose -- or repeat the down from the previous spot.
In High School Rules you are correct about the intentional grounding, but in college you are incorrect.

Also this is a spot foul and a loss of down in high school as well not from the previous spot.

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