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2011 NFHS Football Exam-Part 1 Questions and Answers
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2011 NFHS Football Exam-Part 1 Questions and AnswersIt is illegal for a member of either team to use any other part of the body or equipment to
initiate contact to the head. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 9-4-3g; POE
No player or nonplayer shall make any other contact with an opponent which is deemed
unnecessary and which incites roughness.
It is illegal for any player to accidentally slap a loose ball with the arm or hand. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 9-7-2
No player shall bat (i.e. slap 2-2) a loose ball other than a pass or a fumble in flight, or a
low scrimmage kick in flight which he is attempting to block in or behind the expanded
neutral zone.
It is illegal substitution to have 12 or more players participating at the snap or free kick. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 9-6-4c
It is illegal participation to have 12 or more players participating at the snap or free kick.
It is legal for an opponent to throw himself against the back of the runner's legs. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 2-5-1
Clipping is a block against an opponent when the initial contact is from behind, at or
below the waist, and not against a player who is a runner or pretending to be a runner.
It is legal for runner A1 to spear B1. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 2-20-1c
Illegal-Spearing is an act by an offensive or defensive player who initiates contact
against any opponent with the top of his helmet.
It is legal for the snapper to adjust the ball so that the long axis is parallel to the
scrimmage line. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 7-1-2
The snapper may lift the ball for lateral rotation, but may not rotate end-for-end or
change the location or fail to keep the long axis of the ball at right angles to the line of
scrimmage.
It is legal to grasp the opponent's chin strap. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 9-4-3h
No player or nonplayer shall grasp an opponent's face mask, any edge of a helmet
opening, chin strap, or a tooth and mouth protector attached to the face mask.
,It is not necessary to be in a scrimmage kick formation to execute a legal scrimmage
kick. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 6-2-1
It is pass interference if ineligible A1 catches a forward pass in or behind the neutral
zone. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 7-5-13
It is possible for a Team B player to clip. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 2-5-1; 2-17-3
9-3-5: A player shall not clip or block an opponent in the back except using hands or
arms to contact an opponent above the waist in warding off a blocker, or when
attempting to reach a runner, or catch or recover a loose ball which he may legally
touch or possess.
Knee braces can be worn over the pants. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 1-5-3b(3)
Illegal equipment
No foul causes loss of the ball. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: Fund I-6
No player shall intentionally go out of bounds during a down and intentionally touch the
ball. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 9-6-2b
A 4-inch-wide broken restraining line shall be placed around the outside of the field, at
least 2 yards from the sidelines and end lines, as an extension of the line limiting the
team box area, except in stadiums where the total playing enclosure does not permit. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 1-2-3d
A backward pass in flight may be batted in any direction by the passing team. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 9-7-3
Any pass in flight may be batted in any direction, by an eligible receiver unless it is a
backward pass batted forward by the passing team.
A backward pass out of bounds is an illegal pass. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 7-4-3
A ball without stripes is legal for use if both coaches agree to use it. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 1-3-1c
A block in the back is defined as a block with contact inside the shoulders, below the
helmet and above the waist. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 2-5-2
Blocking in the back is a block against an opponent when the initial contact is in the
opponent's back, inside the shouldlers and below the helmet and above the waist, and
not against a player who is a runner or pretending to be a runner.
, A chop block is a legal block within the 6x8-yard free-blocking zone. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 2-3-8
Chop block is a combination block by two or more teammates against an opponent
other than the runner, with or without delay, where one of the blocks is low (at the knee
or below) and one of the blocks is high (above the knee).
9-3-6
A player shall not chop block.
A defensive player is considered to be on his scrimmage line when he is within 1 yard of
his line of scrimmage at the snap. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 2-25-3
A disqualifying foul during the down causes the covering official to sound his whistle
immediately. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: IX-1
No live-ball foul causes the covering official to sound his whistle immediately.
A down begins when the ball is marked ready-for-play. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 2-7-1
A down is action which starts with a legal snap (beginning a scrimmage down) or when
the ball is kicked on a free kick (beginning a free kick down).
2-35: Ready for play signifies the referee has signaled the ball may be put in play by a
snap or free kick and the 25-second count is to begin.
A forward pass has gone beyond the neutral zone if at any time during the pass, some
part of the ball is beyond the neutral zone. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 2-31-3
....the entire ball is beyond the neutral zone.
A foul is a rule infraction for which a penalty is prescribed. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔True: 2-16-1
A free kick shall not be kicked out of bounds between the goal lines untouched
inbounds by R. If it is, R has the following choices: - ✔✔ANSW✔✔D. Any of the above:
6-1-8 (accept a 5-yard penalty from the previous spot and have k rekick, put the ball in
play at the inbounds spot 25 yards beyond the previous spot, Decline the penalty and
put the ball in play at the inbounds spot)
A kick ends as soon as R1 touches the kick. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔False: Fund IV-1
A kick always ends as soon as any player secures possession.
2-24-2
A kick ends when a player gains possession or when the ball becomes dead while not
in player possession.
A loss of down is part of some 15-yard penalties, but not any 5-yard penalties. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 7-3-2 Penalty; 7-5-2 Penalty
Both 5-yard and 15-yard penalties can also carry a loss of down.
A mouth protector must be worn and must be completely white or clear. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔False: 1-5-1 c(5)c
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