Football PenaltiesFootball is the most watched sport in America today. Men and women of all ages gather around on a weekly basis to watch their favorite teams play. If you do not understand the rules, you cannot get a complete understanding and appreciation for the game. Through this webquest, you will learn what the different penalties are and what the consequences are for committing each penalty.
The first thing that you will need to do is click on the first link at the bottom of the page. Here you will learn what a penalty in football is. After this, you will learn about the different penalties. This site gives you a very detailed description of the different penalties. When a player does one of those things on the list, the referee will then throw a yellow flag which signals that a penalty has been committed. After you have gone through that website, you will click on the second link at the bottom. This site has a list of penalties and descriptions just like the other site only it goes a step farther. It then tells about the signal that the referee will give, signifying what the penalty is. In the next few columns it has the yardage that each penalty is worth. The penalties are the same on both websites. The differences are that they each have slightly different definitions and that the second site has referee signals and yardage. |