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Officials Hand Signals
Officials Hand Signals
Officials Hand Signals
Crowd Noise
Touchdown
Safety
Ball illegally
touched, kicked, or Time out
(Hands crisscrossed
batted
(Fingertips tap both
shoulders)
above head.)
First Down
No time out or
time in with
whistle
(Full arm circled to
simulate moving
clock.)
Penalty refused,
Illegal use of hands, incomplete pass,
Holding
arms, or body
play over, or
(Grasping one wrist, the (Grasping one wrist, the
missed field goal
fist clenched, in front of hand open and facing
or extra point
chest.)
forward, in front of
chest.)
(Hands shifted in
horizontal plane.)
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Delay of game Or
excess timeout
(Folded arms.)
Pass juggled
inbounds and
caught out of
bounds
Interference with
forward pass or fair
catch
(Parallel arms waved in
Intentional
grounding of pass
Offside,
encroachment, or
neutral zone
infraction
(Hands on hips.)
Illegal motion at
snap
(Horizontal arc with one
hand.)
Touching a forward
pass or scrimmage Illegal cut
(Hand striking front of
kick
(Diagonal motion of one thigh.)
hand across another.)
Invalid fair-catch
signal
(One hand waved
above head.)
Loss of down
(Both hands held
behind head.)
Ineligible receiver
or ineligible
Illegal contact
member of kicking (One open hand extended
team downfield
forward.)
(Right hand touching
top of cap.)
Interlocking
interference,
pushing, or helping Unsportsmanlike conduct
(Arms outstretched, palms
runner
(Pushing movement of down.)
hands to front with arms
downward.)
Illegal crackback
(Strike of an open
right hand against the Player disqualified
right mid-thigh
(Ejection signal.)
preceded by personal
foul signal.)
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Tripping
(Repeated action of right foot in
back of left heel.)
Twelve men in
offensive huddle or
(Palm of right hand held too many men on
parallel to ground
the field
Uncatchable
forward pass
Face mask
Illegalshift
Roughing the
Roughing the Kicker Passer
Chop block
Clipping
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