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Old Sat Oct 15, 2005, 05:52pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally posted by BayStateRef
I am glad that everyone who has replied is so smug and so arrogant and so sure of their rules knowledge that they feel no need to actually answer the question. Refresher exams often pose seemingly silly or unlikely-in-real-life scenarios. Yet, there isn't a season that goes by where I do not encounter some wierd, strange or obscure play that involves a complete knowledge of the rules as well as the confidence to tell the coach that despite "never having seen that call in 20 years," it is indeed correct by rule.
I completely agree with you. Some of us lose sight of the fact that we have been around for a long time and we think everyone understands of the rules like we do. I agree this might not be the most "common sense" type of question, but someone probably tried this somewhere.

On the other hand I would say this is illegal based on the fact it violates some of the basic principles of verticality and what is considered to be a legal screen by all the definitions. Also the spirit of the rule is to have a screen upright. I have never seen a screen like this attempted, but if attempted I would not consider it legal.

JMO

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