University of Richmond Athletics
New NCAA Rules For 2013 College Football Season
INDIANAPOLIS – The University of Richmond and the rest of the NCAA will have some new rules in place for the 2103 season.
Among the new rules, players who target and contact defenseless players above the shoulders can be ejected from the game. The automatic ejection will be added to the 15-yard penalty already in place in cases of targeting.
The rule will be the same as the existing penalty for fighting: if a player is penalized in the first half he will miss the remainder of the game; if he is penalized in the second half he will miss the remainder of the game and the first half of his team’s next contest.
Among the other rule changes approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel:
-Adding a 10-second runoff with less than a minute left in the first and second half when the clock stops due to injury.
-Prohibiting teams from spiking the football when there are less than three seconds remaining on the clock. Instead, the offense can run only one more play when there are one or two seconds left.
-Requiring that any number changes that occur during a game to be reported directly to the referee, who will make an announcement.
-Prohibiting two players on the same team who play the same position from wearing the same uniform number.
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