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Originally posted by ronny mulkey
JR,
A1 passes the ball inbounds and B1 catches the ball with a foot on the line. Old interpretation was A1 caused the ball to go out of bounds.
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Ron, I have never heard of the particular interpretation that you described above. As far as I know, the pertinent rule(R9-2-2) hasn't changed since I started. The key words of 9-2-2 are "in bounds or out of bounds". That means that if the thrower-in passes the ball directly onto the court, and the pass then touches someone who is OOB on the court before the pass goes OOB untouched, then the thrower-in has NOT committed a violation.The player who is OOB has, as per R7-2-2(which hasn't changed either,as far as I know). These rules were the same 45 years ago,to my best recollection.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Dec 11th, 2003 at 08:58 AM]