Clock status after illegal forward pass.

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Originally Posted by bossman72

This was a trick by my high school coach (but the opposite). If we were ahead, we would let the play clock run down (while the game clock was running) and false start. Refs that were not wise as to what was going on would run the clock on the ready and we would eat up the clock and win the game.

However, some refs would start it on the snap, thus negating our plan.

This is why I like the Canadian ruling better: the defense has the choice of whether to run the clock or not, not the Referee.