[Husker] penalties in the red zone

[C Jolly]

Thanks for all of your answers.
It appears that this is a defense friendly rule since on the 
Indiannapolis game, the offensive penalty moved them 5 yards
away and the defensive penalty moved them back only 2+ yards. 
By the way, the refs must have been from the Sun Coast league as poorly 
as they refed.  On one of the more notable
non-penalties, the Colts jumped up at the same time, some of them going 
into the neutral zone touching the opposing
players  pointing at the Steelers saying they moved.  I didn't see any 
flags and the the refs said the Steelers didn't
move so there was no penalty on them.  Shouldn't a penalty have been 
called on the Colts for encroachment?
j j wrote:

> A few years back ( and rules always change so this may have also) I 
> asked this same question to a friend who was a ref and he said it is 
> half the distance if the ball would be placed inside the five. 
> Example: any 15 yard penalty inside the 20 is half the distance, any 
> 10 yard penalty inside the 15 is half the distance, and any 5 yard 
> penalty inside the 10 is half the distance. He was a highschool ref 
> but thought that college was the same on this. Like I said this was 
> 5-6 years ago so the rules (even at the highschool level) may have 
> changed.
>
>
>
> */C Jolly <jocar26 at cox.net>/* wrote:
>
>     I have a question about the rules in football brought on by
>     watching the
>     Colts vs the Steelers.
>
>     The Colts had the ball 3rd and goal on the 1 yard line (or
>     thereabouts). An offensive lineman moved and the ball
>     was moved back 5 yards. So far so good. Then a Steelers player was
>     called for encroachment. Instead of moving the
>     ball back to the 1 (a 5 yard penalty), they moved it halfway to the
>     goal. I always thought that a penalty that would cause
>     the ball across the goal line either way was moved halfway to the
>     goal
>     line. If the penalty doesn't move the ball across the
>     goal line then the full penalty is inacted.
>     For example this is what I thought the rules were:
>
>     Offense is on the defenses 7 yard line. Defense has an offside
>     penalty. The ball goes to the 2.
>     Offense is on the defenses 4 yard line. Defense is offside. The
>     ball goes to the 2.
>     Offense is on the offenses 8 yard line and they commit a personal
>     foul. The ball goes to the 4 yard line.
>     Offense is on the offenses 16 yard line and commits a personal
>     foul Since the penalty doesn't cause the
>     ball to go across the goal line, then it should go to the one.
>
>     Can someone expalin where my thinking is wrong?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     husker site list
>     husker at tssi.com
>     http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/husker
>
>
> Yahoo! Photos
> Got holiday prints? See all the ways 
> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/holidayprints/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38089/*http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//print_splash> 
> to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/2006
>  
>