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Old Wed Dec 05, 2012, 02:30pm
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Originally Posted by Spence View Post
Thanks.

You say in NCAA it "can" kill the play. Are there other requirements for "can" to be "shall?"
Yes, it must be a signal that kills the play (time out, TD, INC would kill it, tipped ball would not).

Here's the rule (NCAA 4-1-2):

"A live ball becomes a dead ball as provided in the rules or when
an official sounds his whistle (even though inadvertently) or otherwise signals
the ball dead (A.R. 4-2-1-II and A.R. 4-2-4-I)."


The NFHS and NFL inadvertent whistle provisions do not add "or otherwise signals the ball dead."
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