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Rule 7, Section 1, Article 7

After the ball is ready for play and before the snap begins, no false start shall be made by any A player. It is a false start if:

a. A shift or feigned charge simulates action at the snap.

b. Any act is clearly intended to cause B to encroach.

c. Any A player on his line between the snapper and the player on the end of his line, after having placed a hand(s) on or near the ground, moves his hand(s) or makes any quick movement.

Rule 2, Section 13, Article 1

Force is the result of energy exerted by a player which provides movement of the ball. The term force is used only in connection with the goal line and in only one direction, i.e., from the field of play into the end zone. Initial force results from a carry, fumble, kick, pass or snap. After a fumble, kick or backward pass has been grounded, a new force may result from a bat an illegal kick or a muff.

Rule 1, Section 3, Article 1g & h

g. The ball for 9th grade and above, as in Table 1-3-1, shall include the NFHS Authenticating Mark. The mark can be displayed in either format:

A current list of NFHS authenticated products can be found on the website, www.nfhs.org.

h. Contain only the following permissible items:

    1. Ball manufacturer’s name and/or logo;
    2. School name and/or logo;
    3. Conference name and/or logo;
    4. State association name and/or logos; and
    5. NFHS name and/or logos

NOTE: By state high school association adoption, the ball to be used in games involving only players below the 9th grade may have dimensions as found in the following table:

Table 1-3-1

BALL SPECIFICATIONS

METHOD OF MEASURING

    1. All measurements shall be made after the ball is inflated to 13 psi.
    2. The long circumference should be measured 90 degrees from lace around the ends of the ball, over the groove, but not in the groove.
    3. The long axis should be measured from end to end but not in the nose indentation.
    4.  The short circumference should me measured around the ball, over the valve, over the lace, but not over a cross lace.

Rule 1, Section 3, Article 1b through Article 1f

The ball shall meet the following specifications:

a. See Rule 1, Section 3, Article 1a

b. One set of either eight or 12 evenly spaced laces. The length of the lace shall be confined to within 3 3/4 inches from each end of the ball.

c. A continuous 1-inch white or yellow stripe centered 3 to 3 1/4 inches from each end of the ball free from decorations or logos added during or after production.Stripes shall be located only on the two panels adjacent to and perpendicular to the seam upon which the laces are stitched.

d. Conforms to the shape and dimensions as shown in the diagram.

e. Weighs between 14 and 15 ounces.

f. Inflated to a pressure of 12 1/2 to 13 1/2 psi (pounds per square inch) or 878.8 to 949.1 grams per square centimeter.

 

Rule 1, Section 3, Article 1a

The ball shall meet the following specifications:

a. A tan-colored cover consisting of either pebbled-grain, cowhide or approved composition (leather or rubber) case without corrugations other than those formed by the natural seam grooves and the lace on one of the grooves.

Rule 7, Section 5, Article 5

A forward pass, legal or illegal, is incomplete and the ball becomes dead when the pass touches the ground or goes out of bounds. It is also incomplete when a player in is the air possesses the pass and alights so that his first contact with the ground or with anything other than a player or game official is on or outside a boundary. When an incompletion occurs the down counts unless the pass is after a change of possession. If the pass is legal, the passing team next snaps the ball at the previous spot, unless lost after fourth down.

Rule 4, Section 5, Article 3

A single charged time-out shall not exceed one minute. The referee shall notify the teams within five seconds after the time-out expires and shall mark the ball ready for play.  Charged time-outs shall be reduced in length only if both teams are ready to play prior to the ready-for-play by the referee.

Rule 10, Section 4, Article 2 EXCEPTION

EXCEPTION: The basic spot may, at the option of the offended team, be the succeeding spot for fouls by K during a free or scrimmage kick down (other than kick catch interference) prior to the end of the kick when K will not be next to put the ball in play.

Rule 9, Section 4, Article 4

Roughing the passer. Defensive players must make a definite effort to avoid charging into a passer, who has thrown the ball from in or behind the neutral zone, after it is clear the ball has been thrown. No defensive player shall commit any illegal personal contact foul listed in 9-4-3 against the passer.

Rule 6, Section 5, Article 6

While any free kick is in flight in or beyond the neutral zone to the receiver’s goal line or any scrimmage kick is in flight beyond the neutral zone to the receivers’s goal line, K shall not:

a. Touch the ball or R, unless blocked into the ball or R, or to ward off a blocker; or

b . Obstruct R’s path to the ball.

This prohibition applies even when no fair-catch signal is given, but it does not apply after a free kick has been touched by a receiver, or after a scrimmage kick has been touched by a receiver who was clearly beyond the neutral zone at the time of touching.

EXCEPTION: K may catch, touch, muff or bat a scrimmage kick in flight beyond the neutral zone if no player of R is in position to catch the ball.

Rule 6, Section 1, Article 9

A free kick shall not be kicked out of bounds between the goal lines untouched inbounds by R. If it is kicked out of bounds and R does not accept a penalty for kick-catch interference on the same kick as in 6-5-4, R has the following choices:

a. Accept a 5-yard penalty from the previous spot and have k rekick;

b. Accept a 5-yard penalty from the succeeding spot;

c. Put the ball in play at the inbounds spot 25 yards beyond the previous spot; or

d.. Decline the penalty and put the ball in play at the inbounds spot.