Penalties for an offending team are almost always a real setback to progression down the field. When an offending team is near its own goal line, the rules make it less severe by allowing only half of the distance of the normal penalty to be administered in the half-the-distance circumstances. Timothy P. Brown of FootballArchaeology.com reminds us of a time when these half-distance penalty enforcements could end up in some tremendously long enforcements.

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