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[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by john_faz

K punts with 4 seconds left on the clock in the first half. During the return, the face mask of R45 is grabbed and turned at R's 30 and he runs another 5 yards to the 35. The facemask personal foul is called and we spot the ball at the 50 yard line. Do we give R one untimed down at the fifty to run a play from scrimmage?

CANADIAN RULING:

This is a UR foul. B can apply the penalty at the end of the play, thereby extending this quarter. Or, they can choose to enforce the penalty at the beginning of the next quarter. If the play occurred at the end of the 4th quarter, they can enforce in the first inning of overtime.

[The Roamin' Umpire]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

CANADIAN RULING:

This is a UR foul. B can apply the penalty at the end of the play, thereby extending this quarter. Or, they can choose to enforce the penalty at the beginning of the next quarter. If the play occurred at the end of the 4th quarter, they can enforce in the first inning of overtime.

Please tell me your rulebook doesn't actually call them innings...

[Rich]

Originally Posted by The Roamin' Umpire

Please tell me your rulebook doesn't actually call them innings...

Our overtime procedure does too (we're in Wisconsin).

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by The Roamin' Umpire

Please tell me your rulebook doesn't actually call them innings...

It doesn't, but "inning" is the best way to describe the OT procedure.

[ppaltice]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

It doesn't, but "inning" is the best way to describe the OT procedure.

Originally (1870s) the periods were called innings. Probably because baseball had an established set of rules (from the 1850s) and football was trying to emulate baseball's nationalized rule set.

Even so, NFHS's and NCAA's overtime rules are inning based, whether we call it that or not.