Chipping

JugglingReferee · #1 (**permalink**) Sun Sep 30, 2007, 08:04am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed Hickland

I am interested in how others call this.

First and ten for A from their 30. A32 takes the ball and breaks free for an apparent touchdown. As A32 crosses B's 20 with no B player closer than 10 yards, A75 decides this is a good time to block B68 and proceeds to "clean his clock" with a legal block albeit B68 given his top speed might cause him to come in second to a turtle in a race.

A32 scores.

Would you call A75 for a live ball personal foul?

CANADIAN RULING:

If B68 has no chance to be in the play, there is no need to "clock him". We are enforcing this as a live-ball UR foul. 15y from where the ball was when the hit happened. If that spot is the B-20:

No TD. Team A 1D/10 @ B-35.

FeetBallRef · #2 (**permalink**) Sun Sep 30, 2007, 11:13am

Live ball personal foul, it comes back & take the 6 points off. We all know the Coach goes bonkers & there are schools that won't have our crew back because we called it by the rules.

Forksref · #3 (**permalink**) Sun Sep 30, 2007, 10:12pm

Yep. Personal Foul (and also for stupidity). Hopefully, the coach and team will blame the player and not the officials.

Kirby · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Oct 01, 2007, 03:54pm

I've heard of philosophies from other officials that say try to make this a dead ball foul so that the TD will stand. That said, if the block occurs obviously while the ball is still live I will take the points off the board and penalize 15 yds from the spot of the foul and have done so a few times over the last several seasons. I have also penalized as a dead ball when it is very close as I do tend to agree with the aforementioned philosophy.