2024/2025 NFHS FOOTBALL EXAM
If a game official calls a time-out because A1 appears injured, A1 must leave the
game for at least one play. - correct answer-True: 3-5-10(a)
An official's time-out (which is not charged to either team) occurs, and the player
shall 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. - correct
answer-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.
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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-
True: 3-5-10b; POE
No player shall intentionally go out of bounds during a down and intentionally
touch the ball. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-
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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-True: 9-8-1f; Penalty
An authorized conference is permitted during the intermission between periods. -
correct answer-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 second 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. -
correct answer-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. -
correct answer-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. - correct answer-True: 9-7-2
If a game official calls a time-out because A1 appears injured, A1 must leave the
game for at least one play. - correct answer-True: 3-5-10(a)
An official's time-out (which is not charged to either team) occurs, and the player
shall 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. - correct
answer-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.
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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-
True: 3-5-10b; POE
No player shall intentionally go out of bounds during a down and intentionally
touch the ball. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-
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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-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. - correct answer-True: 9-8-1f; Penalty
An authorized conference is permitted during the intermission between periods. -
correct answer-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 second 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. -
correct answer-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. -
correct answer-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. - correct answer-True: 9-7-2
