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Originally Posted by umpjim
I don't do football. How does FED rule when game is called with 2:09 left due to "fighting"? Score is 30 to 16. Or NCAA if that's what they use in TX.
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The TX HS athletic ass'n uses NCAA, while TX Pop Warner uses Fed.
NCAA's rule book actually has a section, "Fighting". However, there's no obvious provision therein for a game to be "called". So you'd have to construct a scenario whereby enough players would be disqualified that nobody'd be left to play the game. Trouble is, technically that makes it a double forfeit; they have those in chess, not sure about football.
The rule in most codes is that if one team forfeits while they're behind, the score at that point stands. But forfeiture would appear not to be the case here. In adult team sports of any kind, usually if enough fighting breaks out, the game is called for practical reasons. So then unless it's a league where scores figure as a standings tiebreaker, you'd have to ask the bookies. I think most of them would take the score as final. Go by the standard of baseball, where half the game makes it official, and less than half is a push.