What will the next down be?

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by Snake~eyes
Theres always that dumb question on the T/F test. "A penalty cannot give the other team the ball" or somthing along those lines. I think that question really throws people off by thinking that if its 4th down and you have a loss of down then you just repeat 4th down.

I would answer that that statement is true. It's not the penalty that makes it B's ball in this situation, it's the fact that A never reached the LTG in the allotted number of downs.