Re: offsides

"llump41" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Article in the prep round-up from last week. A attempting a game winning FG
> as time expires. B jumps offsides just before the snap of the ball. FG
> 'good' but, the offsides kills the play. Second try is wide and A loses the
> game. Why does offsides kill the play in NFHS?

IIRC from the Comments on the Rule Revisions from that year,
(when was that exactly?) ....

"No down should be allowed to begin with an infraction."

It didn't make any sense to me then, either.


--  Scott