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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
This was the governing NFHS ruling prior to MTD convincing Mary Struckhoff otherwise and getting his case play put in the book.
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2002-03 NFHS Basketball Rules Interpretations
SITUATION 5: Team A is playing with five players, but has no remaining substitutes available when one of the players has an asthma attack. The coach is beckoned onto the floor. RULING: The player must leave the game unless a time-out is requested and granted to Team A with the player being ready to resume by the end of the time-out. The team may continue with fewer than five players if there are no substitutes available. An injured/ill player may return to the game after recovery. (3-3-5)
2008-09 Through 2019-20 NFHS Casebook
Casebook Play 8.2 SITUATION B: A1 is fouled and will be shooting two free throws. After A1’s first free-throw attempt, B6 (Team B’s only remaining eligible substitute) replaces B2. A1’s second free-throw attempt is unsuccessful. During rebounding action for A1’s missed second free-throw attempt, and before the clock starts, A1 pushes B3 in the back causing B3 to roll an ankle. Team B is in the bonus. B3 is unable to immediately continue playing. Team B requests and is granted a time out in order to allow B3 to recover from the ankle injury so as to remain in the game. B3 is still not able to play after the time out has ended. RULING: B2 may return to the game and replace B3 and shoot B3’s free throw attempts despite having been replaced since he/she is the only available substitute. (3-3-4)
A seventeen year old, one time NFHS annual interpretation (probably not available to new officials for the past seventeen years), or a caseplay published in the NFHS Casebook (the one printed on dead trees) every year for the past eleven years, and still exists in the current casebook?
I know which interpretation I'm following.
Just like Mark T. DeNucci, Sr., this casebook play has survived the test of time.
Of course so have cockroaches, horseshoe crabs, snapping turtles, crocodiles, and coelacanths.
Funny how all these "living fossils" remind me of Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
