I can't believe I saw this.

[dave30]

People take high school sports way too seriously.

[JugglingReferee]

This exact play happened in a provincial final in my province.

It was later concluded that the officials did not know of the illegal blocking rule, and therefore didn't know to consider it a foul. They were too focused on first touched/last touched.

Perhaps these officials didn't know of the illegal blocking rule.

[TXMike]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

This exact play happened in a provincial final in my province.

It was later concluded that the officials did not know of the illegal blocking rule, and therefore didn't know to consider it a foul. They were too focused on first touched/last touched.

Perhaps these officials didn't know of the illegal blocking rule.

6 of the 7 work some level of college football. They knew the rule. Although none have publicly commented that I know of, a more likely explanation is "ball watching".

[Steven Tyler]

I don't know if anyone on here was able to open the link I provided, and find more tidbits from early state championship games.

One was about a player's age. Since no birth certificate could be provided, they looked in the family bible. It showed the player's birth was in 1903. I don't remember exactly the year of the game, but according to the rules of the day, no person over the age of 21 was allowed to play HS football.

21, Damn, and they only had eleven grades back then!

PS-I've been researching some old archive sports clippings of late, and I've noticed that for many years, that the players first name was never used in the article.