Signal for 11

[Ed Hickland]

I get in this discussion alot. On my crew myself, the referee, and my umpire use a thumbs up signal to indiacte we have 11 on offense and thumbs down for 10 or less.

I picked that up years ago while working in the East Bay CA area from some really good college officials. Well, here on Long Island, NY they use the fist signal to indicate eleven.

Of course, my question is how do you indicate less than 11? No signal may be that either R or U has simply forgot.

Appreciate hearing ideas both ways.