 Touch
Down |
 Safety |
 First Down |
 Crowd Noise/4th Down Open hand = Crowd Noise
Fist closed
= Fourth Down |
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 Ball illegally touched, kicked, or
batted |
 Time out
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 No time out or time in with whistle |
 Delay of game Or excess timeout |
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 False start, illegal formation, or kickoff or safety
kick out of bounds |
 Personal foul |
 Holding |
 Illegal use of hands, arms, or body |
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 Penalty refused, incomplete pass, play over, or missed
field goal or extra point |
 Pass juggled inbounds and caught out of
bounds (Hands up and down) |
 Illegal forward pass |
 Intentional grounding of pass |
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 Interference with forward pass or fair catch |
 Invalid fair-catch signal |
 Ineligible receiver or ineligible member of kicking
team downfield |
 Illegal contact |
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 Offside, encroachment, or neutral zone
infraction |
 Illegal motion at snap |
 Loss of down |
 Interlocking interference, pushing, or helping
runner |
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Unsportsmanlike conduct
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 Touching a forward pass or scrimmage kick (Diagonal
motion of one hand across another.) |
 Illegal cut (Hand striking front of
thigh.) |
 Illegal crack back (Strike of an open right hand
against the right mid-thigh preceded by personal foul
signal.) |
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 Player disqualified (Ejection signal.) |
 Tripping (Repeated action of right foot in back of
left heel.) |
 Uncatchable forward pass |
 Twelve men in offensive huddle or too many men on the
field |
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 Face mask (Grasping face mask with one
hand.) |
 Illegal Shift (Horizontal arcs with two hands.) |
 Reset play clock - 25 seconds (Pump arm
vertically.) |
 Reset play clock - 40 seconds (Pump 2 arms
vertically.) |
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 Roughing the Kicker (One wrist striking the other
above head followed by swinging leg) |
 Roughing the Passer (One wrist striking the other
above head followed by raised arm swinging forward) |
 Major Face Mask (One wrist striking the other above
head followed by grasping face mask |
 Illegal block below the waist (One hand striking
front of thigh preceded by personal-foul signal.) |
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 Chop block (Both hands striking side of thighs
preceded by personal-foul signal.) |
 Clipping (One hand striking back of calf preceded
by personal-foul signal.) |
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