Final varsity game tonight. Final score 60-28, so not exactly the close game.

But, here's a play that happened tonight (before I go to bed):

A throws an interception. On the return, A commits a live ball personal foul and B commits an illegal block in the back.

Sort it out.

So you ask B if they want to decline A's foul and keep the ball. If he says yes, you enforce the foul on B (A has no choices) and give B 1&10 from 10 yards behind the spot of the block in the back.

if A's foul was before the interception then B would have to decline the penalty and have their illegal block in the back enforced, but since B intercepted and both happened after i would think they offset or enforced in order of occurence. B would keep the ball either way.

[Edited by yankeesfan on Oct 22nd, 2005 at 10:45 AM]

B must declines A's foul to keep the ball, regardless of when A's foul occured before or after the interception.

B got the ball "with clean hands", therefore they can decline A's foul and keep the ball. A will no doubt accept B's penalty. 1st and 10 for B after enforcement.

This is definitley a basic "clean hands" principle, and we will have B's ball after B's penalty is enforced.

OK, it wasn't exactly a hard one.

We threw more flags in this game than I've ever seen in a varsity game. Home team finished 3-6, visiting team 1-8. The home team, in the last three seasons, was 1-26 (0-9, 0-9, 1-8).

Not to be picky about this, but under NF rules, A has no penalty options on this play if B declines A's foul (10-2-2).