Down Lineman being set

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by KWH

Robert,
I concur with Mike Sears and will add that no such rule exisits or has ever exsisted in my 32 years of NFHS Football.
Perhaps you are confusing it with another code?

No, but it did exist within the past 32 years. 1980 7-1-2:

"After the ball is ready-for-play and before the snap, no false start shall be made by any A player. A false start includes.... It is also a false start if any player on the line between the snapper and the player on the end of the line, after having placed a hand on or near the ground, moves his hand or makes any quick movement unless the movement is caused by an irregularity such as calling players off the line for receiving a new signal or B stepping into the neutral zone too soon. If the false start...."

I don't know when they took it out of there if they have, but since that was only 29 seasons ago, it's within the past 32.

I don't see what application B's stepping into the NZ had, considering that under the rules at the time (and still), the encroachment would've killed the RFP anyway. They probably forgot to make a conforming change some time previous, before that was a foul that killed the RFP.