Defensive hholdig in High School football.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

NFL rules and NFHS rules more often than not don't match enforcement.

They did until the 1960s. That's when the NFL & AFL looked hard at their penalties, & said, given their market, they had no need to stay parallel w the other codes in terms of penalties -- although the NFL & AFL did stay highly consistent w each other! (I don't know about the Continental FL.) Took the pros a while to diverge a lot from NCAA & Fed, but that's when they apparently made that decision. One thing the pros sacrificed a lot of was ease of administr'n in terms of details for the ref to memorize.