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In 2002, the NFL added to the rule, making a helmet-to-helmet hit to a quarterback after a turnover illegal. Seven years later, the NFL created penalties for blockers. The penalty states that any contact made with the helmet or neck of an opponent during blind-side blocks, whether by helmet, forearm, or shoulder, would result in a personal foul ...
Recognition of such injuries resulted in rule changes in 1976, banning such tackles for high school and college football, after which incidence of these injuries dropped significantly. [2] For example, incidence of quadriplegia decreased from 2.24 and 10.66 per 700 teams in high school and college football in 1976, to 1.30 and 2.66 per 700 ...
The National Federation of State High School Associations, however, also includes the general rule that all acts are legal unless otherwise explicitly stated; thus, the unfair act rule is only invoked in cases when specific rules have clearly been broken, but the penalty for the foul does not cancel the advantage gained by committing the foul.
[1] [2] The penalty for a block below the waist is 15 yards in the NFL, NCAA, and in high school. The block is illegal unless it is against the ball carrier. [3] In the NFL, blocking below the waist is illegal during kicking plays and after a change of possession.
Under rules for high school boys/girls' lacrosse, a second unreleasable unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against the same player is an automatic ejection foul. The player must serve three unreleasable minutes in the penalty area; when that time expires, a substitute must re-enter the game in his place.
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The offense may attempt a field goal kick (from the 3-yard line for high school, 2-yard line in college, and the 15-yard line in the NFL) worth 1 point (an extra point). The offense may attempt to advance the ball (from the 2-yard line for high school and the NFL or the 3-yard line in college) into the opponent's end zone for 2 points (a two ...
Play is immediately stopped, just as it is with a false start (this violation would be an offside penalty in the NCAA). In high school , encroachment includes any crossing of the neutral zone by the defense, whether contact is made or not.