re: Illegal forward pass question

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Can a team with no timeouts throw a legal pass into the middle of the field (say to get into scoring range) then throw a backwards lateral out of bounds to stop the clock?

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This would be considered as Intentionally throwing a backward pass out of bounds. The penalty(5 yards) would be enforced from the spot of the foul and a loss of down. Game clock starts on the ready.