OFFICIAL'S HAND SIGNALS
Crowd Noise Touchdown Safety First Down (One arm above head Personal foul (Both arms extended (Palms together above (Arm pointed towards with an open hand. (One wrist striking the other above head) head) defensive team's goal) With fist closed) Fourth above head) Down
No time out or Ball illegally False start, illegal time in with touched, kicked, or Time out Delay of game Or formation, or kickoff or whistle batted (Hands crisscrossed excess timeout safety kick out of bounds (Full arm circled to (Fingertips tap both above head.) (Folded arms.) (Forearms rotated over and simulate moving shoulders) over in front of body.) clock.)
Penalty refused, Pass juggled Illegal use of hands, inbounds and incomplete pass, Holding arms, or body play over, or caught out of Illegal forward pass (Grasping one wrist, the (Grasping one wrist, the bounds (One hand waved behind back fist clenched, in front of missed field goal hand open and facing (Hands up and down in followed by loss of down signal.) chest.) forward, in front of or extra point front of chest (following (Hands shifted in chest.) incomplete pass horizontal plane.) signal).)
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Interference with Intentional Ineligible receiver forward pass or fair grounding of pass Invalid fair-catch or ineligible Illegal contact (Parallel arms waved in catch signal member of kicking (Hands open and (One open hand extended a diagonal plane across (One hand waved extended forward from team downfield forward.) body. Followed by loss above head.) (Right hand touching shoulders with hands of down signal.) top of cap.) vertical.)
Interlocking Offside, interference, Illegal motion at encroachment, or Loss of down pushing, or helping Unsportsmanlike conduct snap neutral zone (Both hands held (Arms outstretched, palms (Horizontal arc with one runner behind head.) down.) infraction hand.) (Pushing movement of (Hands on hips.) hands to front with arms downward.)
Touching a forward Illegal crackback (Strike of an open pass or scrimmage Illegal cut Tripping right hand against the Player disqualified (Hand striking front of (Repeated action of right foot in kick right mid-thigh (Ejection signal.) thigh.) back of left heel.) (Diagonal motion of one preceded by personal hand across another.) foul signal.)
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Uncatchable Twelve men in offensive huddle or forward pass Face mask Illegalshift Reset play clock - 25 (Palm of right hand held too many men on (Grasping face mask (Horizontal arcs with seconds parallel to ground the field with one hand.) two hands.) (Pump one arm vertically.) above head and moved (Both hands on top of back and forth.) head.)
Roughing the Major Face Mask Illegal block below the Reset play clock - Roughing the Kicker Passer (One wrist striking the waist 40 seconds (One wrist striking the (One wrist striking the other above head (One hand striking front of thigh (Pump two arms other above head other above head followed by grasping preceded by personal-foul vertically.) followed by swinging leg) followed by raised arm face mask) signal.) swinging forward)
Chop block Clipping (Both hands striking (One hand striking back side of thighs preceded of calf preceded by by personal-foul signal.) personal-foul signal.)
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