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The following are general types of penalty enforcement. Specific rules will vary depending on the league, conference, and/or level of football. Most penalties result in replaying the down and moving the ball toward the offending team's end zone. The distance is usually either 5, 10, or 15 yards depending on the penalty.
In the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a show-cause penalty is an administrative punishment ordering that any NCAA penalties imposed on a coach found to have committed major rules violations will stay in effect against that coach for a specified period of time—and could also be transferred to any other NCAA-member school that hires the coach while the sanctions are still in ...
The harshest sanction is a ban on a school's competing in a sport for at least one year. Sometimes referred to as the NCAA's death penalty, this sanction has been imposed once against an FBS college football program: SMU football for the 1987 season as a result of the Southern Methodist University football scandal.
In U.S. college football and amateur Canadian football, the penalty is an automatic first down at the spot of the foul, up to a maximum of 15 yards from the previous spot. In U.S. high school rules the penalty for both offensive and defensive pass interference is 15 yards from the previous spot with the down replayed.
In college football, the NCAA allows ineligible receivers a maximum of 3 yards. [4] [5] The penalty in both the NFL and NCAA is 5 yards. [1] [6] The NCAA allows for an exception on screen plays, where the ineligible player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage to go out and block when the ball is caught behind the line of scrimmage.
CFL referees, unlike their counterparts in the NFL and American college football, identify the team committing the foul when announcing penalty enforcement, instead of using "offense" or defense". [10] During instant replay reviews in the NFL, the referee confers with the NFL's replay center in New York City, which makes the final ruling. In ...
[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.
Especially in light of the differences between NFL, NCAA, and NFHS, especially for penalties behind the previous line of scrimmage. Many people watch high school games and wonder why holding is a spot foul always, and a spot foul sometimes in NFL/NCAA.-- 71.112.153.111 00:22, 23 October 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]