I have a rules question - happened against Bama.

[rem101]

I really don't understand how you can have an illegal man down field on the 1? Where down field is there to go? I don't think it would have made a difference, I just want someone to explain it to me. My expertise in reffing games stops at 12 year old peewee. We didn't run into that rule very often.

 

[maroondog]

A eligible receiver either has to be in the back field or on the end of the.....

or in the backfield. some one was "covered up" as a receiver. Someone lined up wrong!

I really don't understand how you can have an illegal man down field on the 1? Where down field is there to go? I don't think it would have made a difference, I just want someone to explain it to me. My expertise in reffing games stops at 12 year old peewee. We didn't run into that rule very often.

 

[patdog]

If a lineman is past the line of scrimmage on a pass play, he's an illegal man downfield. From the 1-yard line, there's 11 yards he could be downfield illegally. That penalty actually helped us in that it gave us another chance to score on 3rd down. Of course we 17ed it up.

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

FR67 "
Ineligible Receiver Downfield
ARTICLE 10. No originally ineligible receiver shall be or have been more than
three yards beyond the neutral zone until a legal forward pass that crosses the
neutral zone has been thrown (A.R. 7-3-10-I and II).
PENALTY—Five yards from the previous spot [S37]
http://www.naia.org/fls/27900/1NAIA/resources/sid/Rule Books/FBR.pdf