Where I am from, for NFHS game played using 6 or 7 man mechanics we use the CCA manual. Not being from Pa. I was not aware that they had their own 6 man mechanics. If that is what the Pa. book says and you are working in Pa. then that is what you do. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

KW

One minor point. This was a WPIAL crew, so they were almost certainly using CCA mechanics. The PIAA issued their manual last year. But the WPIAL, as well as many others of us in western PA who had been using CCA, stuck with CCA, and for good reason: the PIAA mechanics are based on 25 year old PAC-10 mechanics and in some respects just plain bad. It led to a big fight between the WPIAL and the PIAA (or another big fight, since they have many). It may have been why no WPIAL crew got a state championship game last year. The PIAA reissued their mechanics again this year with a stern warning to use them. Many of us think that's just the PIAA's way of sticking it to the WPIAL, especially since WPIAL opposition effectively killed a PIAA plan to go to six football classifications from four.

One way I think you can tell they're using CCA is how long it takes the BJ to come into view. In CCA, when the ball is thrown he's at the goal line pylon opposite the SJ. That appears to be where he comes from. If they had been using PIAA, he would have been inside the hash and probably near the end line. (And if he's inside the hash and near the end line, who's covering the LJ's goal line pylon, you ask? You guessed it, the LJ, from 10 yards away, just like 5-man. I said they're bad!).

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I will stay out of PA Politics....

Canadian Ruling
 

CANADIAN RULING:

Touchdown.

Simultaneous possession goes to the team last in possession. (Exception: kick-off: re-kick if previously untouched after kick-off, or last to touch before simultaneous possession.)

Sidenote:

You guys are harping on FBullock too much. The only thing he did wrong was neglecting to specify that his initial ruling on the play was for NCAA rules. No big deal about that. Nothing in the OP asked for a Fed ruling, so he was well within his right to assume NCAA.

Good contribution FBullock! It led to illustrating the difference between the two rulesets.

Its customary around here to include rule references under alternative codes than what the actual game was played under. The play itself could have happened anywhere -- pee wee through NFL. Besides, a lot of guys here work both Fed and NCAA. There was never an assertion that the call was missed because of the NCAA ruling, but rather a reference to it.

Total nonsense. If you want to start your own forum and have such a rule, go for it, but these are always fair game unless the discussion topic makes other rule codes irrelevant (e.g. free kick (or whatever its called) after fair catch rules, mechanics, and case plays; no need to discuss NCAA rule since there isn't one).

There was no reference in the original post or the video as to where this game was. 2 HS states play NCAA rules. Are we supposed to just know where the game is by the limited information involved? There's a Black Hawk HS in Wisconsin. Probably another one somewhere else.