Thread: 6 men on LOS
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Old Fri Sep 30, 2005, 05:52am
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Originally posted by BigFarns
As an aside to this....I had quite a few plays in my first game where offensive line looked like a V with the tackle way off the ball. What is a good reference point where I can say...yep he's too far back and is no longer on the LOS?
As it says in the Rule book and Case book, it is the plane created by the waist of the snapper. So even the split end has to have some part of this body penetrating this plane of the center's waist.

2-30-2: A back is any A player who has no part of his body breaking the plane of an imaginary line drawn parallel to the line of scrimmage through the waist of the nearest teammate who is legally on the line, except for the player under the snapper, who is also considered a back.
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