Inadvertant Whistle on shot

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Originally posted by Camron Rust
As ChuchElias said, 6-3-3 covers it exactly.

A try in flight is NEVER dead on the whistle, only a player control foul. So, without a PC foul, an airborne try always counts if it goes in. (Rule 6-7 Exception 1 or 2, from 99-2000 book).

Then we have a dead ball after a goal...See rule 7-4-3 (again from 99-2000). Team B's ball.


The case book play that is mention is implying about a missed shot where the whistle was blown while the ball was in the air. In that case, the ball became dead when the try was unsucessful (also by 6-7)

In that case, the ball be came dead with no team in control and with no goal involoved (it was missed). So, go to the arrow.

Camron, This is exactly right. I thought about this play for a while a couple of weeks ago and even wrote in another thread on this board that I felt part c of that casebook play implied that the shot was not successful. It is the only understanding that is consistent with the other NFHS rules. I hope that they rewrite part c to explicitly state that the shot is unsuccessful because until they do we will have officials, such as BITS, who, while good-hearted and with only the best of intentions, will misinterpret the casebook play.