2023 NFHS Football Exam-Part 1 Questions and Answers

2023 NFHS Football Exam -Part 1 Questions and Answers If a game official calls a time -out because A1 appears injured, A1 must leave the game for at least one play. True: 3 -5-10(a) An official's time -out (which is not charged to either team) occurs, and the player sha ll be replaced for at least one down, unless halftime or an overtime intermission occurs when an apparently injured player is discovered by the game official while the ball is dead and the clock is stopped and for whom the ready -for-play signal is delayed, or for whom the clock is stopped. A chop block is a legal block within the 6x8 -yard free -blocking zone. 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 o f 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. Beginning in 2012, gloves that may be anchored with athletic tape, and even though modified, must meet the NOCSAE test standard at the time of manufacture, unless made of an unaltered plain cloth. False: 1 -5-2b Beginning with the 2013 season,..... Thigh guards that are unaltered from the manufacturer's original design/production are not required equipment by rule. False: 1 -5-1d(4) Thigh guards which are unaltered from the manufacturer's original design/production are required of all players. Any player who exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion shall be immediately removed from the game and shall not return to play until cleared by an appropriate health -care professional. True: 3 -5-10b; POE No player shall intentionally go o ut of bounds during a down and intentionally touch the ball. True: 9 -6-2b Eye shade (grease or no -glare strips or stickers) that is a solid stroke can have words, numbers, logos, or other symbols within the eye shade. False: 1 -5-3 c(3) Illegal equipment includes eye shade (grease or no -glare strips or stickers) that is not a solid stroke or includes words, numbers, logos, or other symbols within the eye shade. The horse -collar foul is enforced as a dead -ball foul. False: 9 -4-3k The horse -collar foul is enforced as a live -ball foul. It is illegal for a member of either team to use any other part of the body or equipment to initiate contact to the head. 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. Holding an unauthorized conference is considered unsportsmanlike conduct and carries a 15 -yard penalty. True: 9 -8-1f; Penalty An authorized conference is permitted during the intermissi on between periods. True: 3 -5-8 a(2) An authorized conference may be held during an official's time out. 3-5-7l An official's time -out (which is not charged to either team) occurs during a dead ball for a one -minute intermission between the first and secon d and the third and fourth periods and following a try, successful field goal or safety and prior to the succeeding free kick. It is illegal for any player to accidentally slap a loose ball with the arm or hand. 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. A backward pass in flight may be batted in any direction by the passing team. 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. Batting a scrimmage kick in or behind the neutral zone by R, in an effort to block the kick, is legal. True: 9 -7-2