Too many men with too many players on the court. Under no circumstance can any player or coach be ejected on a technical foul caused by too many players. In gridiron football, if a team has more than the allowed number of players on the field during a play (eleven in America, twelve in Canada), the offending team is penalized five (American) or ten (Canadian) yards for "too many men on the field" (also called "twelve/thirteen men on the field"). This is usually the result of an improper substitution. The 2009 Grey Cup game in the CFL was decided on a too-many-men call.
Comparison of Canadian football and rugby union defender. In rugby, rucks and mauls may develop following a tackle when multiple players from each team bind together to move the ball in play (on the ground or in-hand respectively). In Canadian football, equivalents to rucks and mauls are virtually non existent, as play stops when the ball carrier is stopped. This difference can be summed up in the idea that in Canadian football the objective is to bring the player to ground or to disrupt a pass to end the play, whereas in rugby the main objective is to stop the player from breaking the try line. Canadian