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Sun Aug 30, 2009, 11:51pm

bossman72

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False start or Illegal Shift?

A (a) person on the line or (b) person in the backfield starts to go down into their stance (putting hand on ground) as the ball is being snapped.

Should this be blown dead and a false start called or should this just be ruled an illegal shift and play continues?

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