Halftime Forfeit

[grunewar]

Injury-struck Seattle team with 11 players forfeits at halftime - Prep Rally - Highschool - Yahoo! Sports

Ever been involved in a beat-down forfeit or crazy ending like this?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Injury-struck Seattle team with 11 players forfeits at halftime - Prep Rally - Highschool - Yahoo! Sports

Ever been involved in a beat-down forfeit or crazy ending like this?

Nope. But then again at least I would get paid for a full game.

Peace

[bigjohn]

It doesn't have to be a forfeit, the game could have just ended.

A forfeit changes the stats I do believe.



Rule 3-1
ART. 3 . . . A period or periods may be shortened in any emergency by agreement
of the opposing coaches and the referee. By mutual agreement of the
opposing coaches and the referee, any remaining period may be shortened at any
time or the game terminated.

[BroKen62]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

It doesn't have to be a forfeit, the game could have just ended.

A forfeit changes the stats I do believe.



Rule 3-1
ART. 3 . . . A period or periods may be shortened in any emergency by agreement
of the opposing coaches and the referee. By mutual agreement of the
opposing coaches and the referee, any remaining period may be shortened at any
time or the game terminated.

I'm like JRut, if they want to quit, I'm all for it, but what if one coach wants to keep on playing?

[bigjohn]

Then he gets his forfeit but his kids lose the stats from the first half!

[mv7267]

We had a game last season that could have ended at the half. The visitors were down 67-0 and had maybe 20 kids dressed to start but were down to 16. The HC had seen enough, the home HC and his 80+ players did not want to hear it. They wanted 12 minute quarters in the second half. The visitors began undressing for the ride home. The principal of the home school stepped in, we finished with 8 minute quarters and "creative" timing rules. In Ohio, we can't use a continuous clock but the ECO can forget to stop it when we signal. The game ended up 81-0.

[ump33]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

Then he gets his forfeit but his kids lose the stats from the first half!

I’m not sure why the stats would not count, according to 8-1 Point Values the half time score would stand.

8-1 … FORFEITED GAME: … Game score is: Offended Team: 1, Opponent: 0. But if offended team is ahead, the score stands.