NFHS - Same numbers

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

This brings up another good question. I can see the OP happening in a sub-varsity game. If the coach said something before the game, that he might have two players in the game with the same number, do you cut him some slack knowing it's a sub-varsity game?

Not here. We require teams to follow the numbering rules at all levels.

And we've never had an issue with it.

Originally Posted by Ed Hickland

There is a little math to help understand this situation.

There are 22 players on the field at any one time, 11 on each side. Anyone else is a non-player. When a non-player is summoned into the game he becomes a substitute. When he enters and tells the player he is being replaced the former substitute becomes a player and the former player becomes a replaced player.

Until the ball is snapped -- and the down begins, a player is not participating.

I understand the situation. I replied because I didn't think that you did.

You said the "official should prevent this foul if at all possible." If one is entering and one is leaving, what foul is there to prevent?