Consecutive timeouts
 

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?

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

Canadian Ruling
 

Canadian Ruling

In Canada, this is legal.

Legal under Federation too

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

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

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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.

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