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Breaking the huddle with 12 is an NCAA rule, it's not always illegal in high school.


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3-7-1 "Between downs any number of eligible substitutes may replace
players. Replaced players shall leave the field immediately."

2-32-15 "A substitute is a team member who may replace a player or fill a player vacancy. A substitute becomes a player when he enters the field and communicates with a teammate or an official, enters the huddle, is positioned in a formation or participates in the play. An entering substitute is not considered to be a player for encroachment restrictions until he is on his team’s side of the neutral zone. A team member entering the field to fill a player vacancy remains a substitute until he is on his team’s side of the neutral zone."

2-32-12 "A replaced player is one who has been notified by a substitute that he is to leave the field. A player is also replaced when the entering substitute becomes a player."


so basically when central cambria runs on a player, no one leaves the field and then after the huddle breaks one of the 12 guys leaves the field, that is a penalty.

CC doesn't go true huddle a lot and when they do they don't break with 12. 7 different officiating crews have seemed to think that what they do is fine.

2016 version of rule rewritten in 2012 or 2013...3-7-1 between downs any number of eligible substitutes may replace players. Upon meeting the criteria of 2-32-12, replaced players shall begin to leave the field within three seconds.

What I was pointing out is no where in the rule book does it say the offense can't break a huddle with 12 players. In NCAA rules it says exactly that A shall not break a huddle with 12 players.


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Those who fail to learn the lessons of HISTORY are doomed to repeat them.

 I guess coffin corner is a rules interpreter now