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Old Tue Nov 08, 2011, 06:31pm
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9 man game on regulation field NFHS

9 man football field marked on a regular field, meaning it's 80 yards long so the back of the endzones will actually be the goal lines for a 11 man game.

Question: What do we do for field goals? Do we just move everything up 10 yards since the goal posts can't be moved? If it's 4th and 8 on the 12 yard line do we just move it up to the normal 12 yard line and play from there?

I have looked through my books and can't find anything.

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Old Wed Nov 09, 2011, 09:02am
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Hmmmm. Never thought of that, but it seems like a reasonable solution.

Around here, 8-man teams play on a regulation, 100 yard field, so this isn't an issue.
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Old Wed Nov 09, 2011, 09:22am
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We have one local 8-man school that plays on a field originally set up for 11-man.

They have relined the filed to be the proper 8-man length and width. If a team headed to one end zone wishes to kick, we move to the other end of the field. No other reasonable choice, really, since the posts are 20 yards deeper than they would normally be.

Of course, I've worked 4 games there the past 2 years and never did have a team kick.
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Old Wed Nov 09, 2011, 10:06am
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We play 9-man on a 100-yard field that is narrower than a regulation field. We have a 9-man state game Saturday played on a regulation field at a high school in the Twin Cities. We are wondering how they will redo the field to make it regulation.
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Old Wed Nov 09, 2011, 10:34am
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We play 9-man on a 100-yard field that is narrower than a regulation field. We have a 9-man state game Saturday played on a regulation field at a high school in the Twin Cities. We are wondering how they will redo the field to make it regulation.
Don't you think they will just paint/mark new sidelines and hash marks?
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Old Wed Nov 09, 2011, 11:52am
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Could be--but the game is on artificial turf and I don't know how permanent the existing lines are.
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