Transcript NFHS 2005 Football Rule Changes

2005 NFHS Football
Rule Changes
Editorial Changes
and Points of Emphasis
John Hoffmann
July 18, 2005
[email protected]
(321) 676-2844
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Football Rules Changes for the 2005 Season
1-2-3e: Marks 9 yards from each sideline, located on each 10-yard line
1-5-1a: Helmets shall be secured with a four-snap chin strap
1-5-1i: Tooth protector shall be of a color other than white or clear
1-5-2c: Hand pads same standard as gloves, bear the NF/NCAA label
1-5-3l: Logo/trademark restriction now includes any company reference
3-3-4b: Period not extended when it is a “loss of down” foul and score
3-7; 7-2-1; 9-6-4a: Substitution and participation rules
7-2-1 Penalty: “Illegal procedure” terminology has been removed
7-5-1; 7-5-2e: Only one forward pass may be thrown during a down
7-5-10b: Face guarding is now deemed pass interference by rule
7-5-11c: Contact by a defender away from the pass is not DPI
8-5-2a Exception: All loose balls now part of momentum exception
9-4-3: Nonplayers added to coverage of illegal personal contact rule
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Field Markings
1-2-3e: Nine-yard marks, 12 inches in length and 4 inches in width,
shall be located 9 yards from each sideline. The 9-yard marks shall
be marked so that at least each 10-yard line bisects the 9-yard
marks. These marks shall not be required if the field is visibly
numbered. If on-the-field numbers are used, the tops of those
numbers shall be 9 yards from the sideline, should be 6 feet in
height and 4 feet in width and may include directional arrows next to
the yard-line numbers indicating the direction toward the nearest
goal line.
• Now required that all offensive players must have momentarily been
between the 9-yard marks after the ready-for-play and prior to the
snap, and adhere to all other pre-snap requirements.
• The 9-yard markings are not required on fields that are visibly
numbered.
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Field Markings
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Player Equipment – Chin Strap
1-5-1a: Beginning in 2006, a four-snap chin strap shall be required.
• Beginning with the 2006 season.
• Change should increase the probability of the helmet staying in
place during game action.
• Survey of helmet manufacturers determined that helmets have been
shipped with the four-snap system for many years.
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Player Equipment – Mouth Protector
1-5-1i: Beginning in 2006, the tooth and mouth protector shall be of any
readily visible color, other than white or clear.
1-5-1i: A tooth and mouth protector with labial portion (protects the
teeth and supporting structures) and covers the posterior teeth with
adequate thickness.
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Beginning with the 2006 season
More easily identifiable for both coaches and officials.
Must be one solid color, not multi-colors.
Also added language about its thickness.
A player who is unable to use a mouth-and-tooth protector must
have written authorization from a dentist.
– S.I. 1-5-1, page 11 has been here since at least 1978.
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Player Equipment – Hand Pads
1-5-2c: Beginning in 2008, hand pads must have a securely attached
label or stamp (NF/NCAA specifications) indicating compliance with
test specification on file with the Sporting Goods Manufactures
Association as of January 1, 1994, unless made of unaltered plain
cloth.
• Beginning with the 2008 season.
• Hand pads are now required to meet the same specifications set
forth for gloves.
• Hand pads must carry the securely attached NFHS/NCAA label or
stamp.
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Player Equipment – Logo / Trademark
1-5-3l: Illegal equipment shall include jerseys and pants that have:
A visible logo/trademark exceeding 2-1/4 square inches and
exceeding 2-1/4 inches in any dimension. Beginning in 2008, more
than one manufacture’s logo/trademark or reference on the outside
of each item. (The same size restriction shall apply to either the
manufacture’s logo/trademark or reference).
• Beginning with the 2008 season, a company “reference” is treated
similar to a logo or trademark.
• Only one manufacture’s logo/trademark or reference may be visible
on each uniform item.
• The manufacturer logo/trademark size restriction now includes any
company reference.
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Foul on Last Timed Down
3-3-4: A period shall not be extended by an untimed down if during the
last timed down of the period, one of the following occurs:
a. When the defense fouls during a successful try/field goal and the
offended team accepts the results of the play with enforcement of
the penalty from the succeeding spot.
b. There is a foul that specifies loss of down and the penalty is
accepted. The score is cancelled in the event of an accepted foul
that specifies a loss of down.
• Period may not be extended if the final down includes a score AND
an accepted foul that specifies a loss of down.
• Review C.B. SITUATION 6, page 5.
[Score]
• Review C.B. 3.3.3 SITUATION A, page 19. [No score]
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Substitution
3-7-2: A player, replaced player or a substitute who has been unable to
complete the substitution, is required to leave the field at the side on
which his team box is located and go directly to his team box.
• Status (player, replaced player, substitute) no longer needed.
• This was amended to require all players, replaced players and
substitutes to leave the field on the side of their team box, and that
replaced players or substitutes go directly to their team box.
• Based on 2004 NFHS questionnaire, 83% of respondents favored
revisions which clarified these rules.
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Participation
9-6-4a: It is illegal participation:
a. When any player, replaced player or substitute enters during a
down.
PENALTY: Illegal participation [live-ball, basic spot] - S28 -15 yards.
• Entry of a substitute during a down will constitute a foul for illegal
participation rather than illegal substitution.
– No longer a live ball, nonplayer foul, 5-yards
• To be considered to have entered, he should be viewed by the
official as attempting to become part of the play.
• It does not matter if he influences the play or not.
– Review C.B. 9.6 COMMENT, page 71 part b) and part c) for confusion
on enforcement based on “influence” of substitute who enters.
• Enforced using all-but-one. No special enforcement rule in 10-5.
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Illegal Procedure
7-2-1: After the ball is ready for play, each player of A who participated
in the previous down and each substitute for A must have been,
momentarily between the 9-yard marks, before the snap.
• The term “illegal procedure” has been removed from the penalty
portion of the rules section. It will now be “illegal formation.”
• The previous rule requiring each player of A to be within 15 yards of
the ball was inconsistently applied as it contained no easily verifiable
fixed reference point for officials to administer.
• Term was never defined in the past.
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One Forward Pass
7-5-1: It is a legal forward pass, if during a scrimmage down and before
team possession has changed, a player of A throws the ball with
both feet of the passer in or behind the neutral zone when the all is
released. Only one forward pass may be thrown during the down.
7-5-2e: An illegal forward pass is a foul. The illegal forward passes are:
e. A second or subsequent forward pass thrown during a down.
Table 7-5:
Penalty loss of 5 yards and loss of down enforced from end of run.
• Team A is limited to ONE forward pass during a down.
• Was difficult for defense to determine whether a pass in the flat was
forward or backward. They didn’t know when pass interference
restrictions ended. Defense was at a disadvantage not intended.
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Faceguarding
7-5-10b: It is forward-pass interference if:
b. Any player hinders an opponent’s vision without making an
attempt to catch, intercept or bat the ball, even though no contact
was made.
• Pass interference rules now specify that hindering an opponent’s
vision without making contact is pass interference.
– This has been an “interpretation” for years
– C.B. 7.5.10 SITUATION C, page 54
• This foul can be done by the offense or the defense.
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Fouls Away From the Pass
7-5-11c: It is not forward-pass interference if:
c. Contact by B is obviously away from the direction of the pass.
• Team B pass interference, when is it obvious the pass is thrown in
another direction, is ignored.
• This change does not remove the restrictions on illegal use of the
hands, holding or a personal foul that is committed during any play.
• This specifically states defense (B) but good officiating philosophy
should still apply to the offense (A) in a similar case. Talk to them.
• Team B doesn’t know it is a passing play but team A does.
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Momentum Exception
8-5-2a Exception: When a defensive player intercepts an opponent’s
forward pass; intercepts or recovers an opponent’s fumble or
backward pass; or an R player catches or recovers a scrimmage
kick or free kick between his 5-yard line and the goal line, the ball
belongs to B at the spot where the pass or fumble was intercepted
or recovered or the kick was caught or recovered.
• Momentum exception is no longer restricted to a ball that a player
catches. The momentum rule will now apply to a grounded ball.
• Previously, the momentum rule applied only to an intercepted
forward pass, fumble or backward pass by an opponent or a caught
scrimmage or free kick.
• It is the momentum of the player, not the ball, that determines the
validity of the exception.
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Nonplayer Personal Foul
9-4-3: No player or nonplayer shall:
Swing foot, shin or knee; charge into opponent after he is out of the
play; pile on a player lying on the ground; hurdle an opponent;
position on the shoulders of teammate or opponent; throw a helmet
to trip opponent; make contact which incites roughness; grasp
opponents face mask; but block, face tackle or spear; use helmet to
ram opponent; hide ball under jersey; or strike opponent with fist,
hands, forearm, elbow or kick or knee him.
• Nonplayers added to the list of those who may be penalized for
committing illegal personal contact fouls.
– Previously, they were technically not covered.
– This could have been ruled unsportsmanlike last year.
• Anyone associated with the team (including coaches, managers and
other tem personnel) are subject to the rules.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Use of Media
1-6-1: Electronic communication equipment, other than an audio tape
recorder, including but not limited to computer, film, television and
videotape or any type of still or moving pictures, shall not be used
for coaching purposes during the game or between periods.
Inadvertent Whistle
4-2-3c: If an inadvertent whistle occurs during a down in which a foul
occurs prior to the inadvertent whistle, and the penalty is accepted,
the inadvertent whistle is ignored.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Post-Scrimmage Kick
2-16-2g: A post scrimmage kick foul by R when the foul occurs:
1. During scrimmage kick plays, other than a try or successful field
goal.
2. During a scrimmage kick play in which the ball crosses the
expanded neutral zone.
3. Beyond the expanded neutral zone.
4. Before the end of a kick.
5. And K does not have possession of the ball when the down ends
and will not be next to put the ball in play.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Basic Spot
2-40-1: The basic spot is a point of reference for penalty enforcement.
It is the previous spot for a loose-ball play unless the only accepted
fouls meet the requirements of a post-scrimmage kick foul (2-16-2g)
and the end of the run for a running play.
10-4-3: The basic spot is the spot where the kick ends when R commits
a post-scrimmage kick foul (2-16-g). R fouls behind the postscrimmage kick spot are spot fouls.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Untimed Down
3-3-3a: A period must be extended by an untimed down if during the
last timed down, one of the following occurs:
a. There was a foul, other than unsportsmanlike or nonplayer, or
fouls that specify loss of down by either team and the penalty is
accepted.
3-3-4b: A period shall not be extended by an untimed down if during the
last timed down of the period, one of the following occurs:
b. There is a foul that specifies loss of down and the penalty is
accepted. The score is cancelled in the event of an accepted foul
that specifies a loss of down.
These two create a CONFLICT. Review C.B. SITUATION 6, page 5.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Down and Possession After Penalty
5-2-2: When a foul occurs during a scrimmage down and before any
change of team possession, and before a receiver is first to touch a
scrimmage kick while it is beyond the neutral zone, the ball belongs
to A or K after enforcement unless it is a 2-16-2g (post-scrimmage
kick) foul.
Simply stated, no foul causes loss of ball 2-16-3.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Double Fouls
10-2-2: If each team fouls during a down in which there is a change of
possession and all R fouls are after the kick has been made, then R
may retain the ball, provided R declines the penalty for K’s foul(s),
other than a nonplayer or unsportsmanlike foul. In this case, the
team that was not last in possession has no penalty option and the
foul against R will be enforced.
If both teams foul and team R’s only foul(s) qualifies as after the kick
(not necessarily a PSK foul), team R may keep the ball by declining
team K’s fouls.
Last year there was confusion as to whether the team K foul would
combine with team R’s foul to create a double foul.
It is as if team K relinquishes possession and team R gains possession
when the ball is kicked.
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Major Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Fouls on Touchdowns
8-2-2: If during a touchdown-scoring play in which there is no change of
possession, a foul by the opponents of the scoring team occurs the
scoring team may accept the results of the play and have the
penalty enforced from the succeeding spot. If during a touchdownscoring play in which there is a change of possession, a foul by the
opponents of the scoring team occurs after the change of
possession, the scoring team may accept the results of the play and
have the penalty enforced from the succeeding spot.
The committee intended to address only fouls by team B when there
was no change of possession, or by the opponent of the scoring
team if the foul occurs after a change of possession.
The change clarifies that A fouls occurring prior to the change of
possession are not applicable to this rule.
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Minor Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Equipment
1-3-1a: The ball shall be a tan-colored cover consisting of either
pebbled-grain, cowhide or approved composition (leather or rubber).
1-5-2b Exception: Tape, bandage or support wrap not to exceed three
thicknesses are legal without inspection or approval.
1-5-3k: Moisture-absorbing sweatbands are legal, when worn on the
wrist beginning at the base of the thumb and extending no more
than 3 inches toward the elbow.
Table 1-7: Added “authorizing” or “determining” to State Association
adoptions in entries 5, 13 and 15.
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Minor Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Pass Eligibility
7-5-6b: Pass eligibility rules apply only to a legal forward pass. The
following players are eligible pass receivers:
b. All A players become eligible when B touches a legal forward
pass.
7-5-9: Pass interference restrictions on a legal forward pas end for all:
a. A players, when B touches a legal forward pass.
b. Eligible A players when A touches a legal forward pass. Ineligible
A players may not touch the pas, but can use hands or arms in a
legal block to ward off an opponent.
c. B players when a legal forward pass has been touched by A or B.
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Minor Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Chop Block
9-3-6: A player shall not chop block.
Table moved back from points of emphasis at end of mechanics
manual into rule book. Remember any block with “delay” and the
second block “low” is illegal. Without both, it is legal.
Loose Ball Play
10-3-1 Note: The run(s) which precedes such legal or illegal kick, legal
forward pass, backward pass or fumble is (are) considered part of
the action during a loose-ball play.
Now becomes more clear and inclusive of a), b) and c) as described.
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Minor Football Editorial Changes 2005 Season
Minor Nit Picks
3-5-11: A player, directed by his coach or the head coach, may request
and be granted a time-out for the purpose of the coach and the
referee reviewing a decision which may have resulted from
misapplication or misinterpretation of a rule, provided the request is
made prior to the time the ball becomes live following the play to be
reviewed, unless the period has officially ended.
7-2-5a: Player numbering requirements include
a. At the snap, at least seven A players shall be on their line of
scrimmage.
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Football Points of Emphasis for the 2005 Season
1. Heat and Hydration and Their Effect on Weight
a) SEVEN deaths attributable to dehydration from heat last year.
b) An athlete can lose five or more pounds of fluid through sweating
in a matter of an hour.
c) In football, the amount of equipment covering the body decreases
the body’s ability to cool off by radiating heat from the skin.
d) Schedule practices at a time when heat can be avoided.
e) WATER is the ideal fluid to drink to maintain good hydration.
f) Sports drinks may provide additional benefit for prolonged
continuous activity (>45 min), individual who sweats excessively, or
individual not used to being in the heat.
f) Drink early and often, before, during and after activity.
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Football Points of Emphasis for the 2005 Season
2. Spearing, Butt Blocking, Face Tackling and Chop Blocks
Spearing is intentionally driving the helmet into a player in an
attempt to punish him. Committed by offensive or defensive players.
Butt blocking is driving the face mask, frontal area or top of the
helmet directly into an opponent. Committed by offensive player.
Face tackling is driving the face mask, frontal area or top of the
helmet directly into the runner. Committed by defensive player.
A chop block is a delayed block at the knees or below against an
opponent who is in contact with a teammate of the blocker. Done by
a pair of offensive or pair of defensive teammates.
Be diligent and vigilant in detecting these fouls and call them
consistently.
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Football Points of Emphasis for the 2005 Season
3. Sideline Management
Not only are coaches violating the rules, but officials are not
enforcing the rules 1-2-3e, 9-8-3 and 2-6-2.
Sideline violations are handled by a progressive component in 9-8.
Be preventative and communicate with coaches before the game
and early in the contest.
4. Game Management
Responsible to make sure only proper personnel have access to the
sideline area (media, photographers, statisticians and boosters).
Game officials may request of game management to take care of
problems outside of the team box.
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