Consecutive timeouts

[jeremy24175]

Question,

We had a game saturday (in Ohio) where a team called two timeouts in a row. (in other words, timeout then lined up to punt, then instead of punting, they called another timeout.)

I thought this wasn't legal.

Can a team call back to back timeouts?

[jeremy24175]

Would there be any situations (other than them being out of TO's) where this is illegal?

[wwcfoa43]

Canadian Ruling

In Canada, this is legal.

[HLin NC]

Legal under Federation too

[mbyron]

Situations where it would not be legal: if the first time out called were the team's third called time out of the half.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by jeremy24175

Would there be any situations (other than them being out of TO's) where this is illegal?

The only code in which I know of this having been illegal in recent times was (maybe still is) NFL, where it is/was "delay of game -- excessive time out" to call one after a team time out -- even the other team's charged time out -- unless a dead ball foul or a live ball intervened. IIRC they weren't allowed to call time out to delay the start of a period, either.

Robert

[daggo66]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Situations where it would not be legal: if the first time out called were the team's third called time out of the half.

[aschramm]

I just happened to be reading this rule tonight:

NFHS 3-5-4 Successive charged time-outs may be granted during the same dead-ball period.

Then further down it also explains that a team can't use any subsequent timeouts after their three timeouts have been used.

[daggo66]

Originally Posted by aschramm

a team can't use any subsequent timeouts after their three timeouts have been used.