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Originally Posted by ChampaignBlue
Inevitably every year I'd hear "but if he's in the way without the ball...." my reply "you still have to go around and I'll stick out my left arm for you but if you crash into him then I'll be using my right arm and probably doing some pointing, as in where the exit is".
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Contact by a runner against a defender that does not have the ball is obstruction (NFHS).
If the contact is malicious, then malicious contact overrides obstruction and runner is called out and ejected. ONLY if malicious. Contact may be violent; someone may get injured. But that itself is not necessarily malicious. You need to see a deliberate action on the part of the runner to injure or create a violent collision.
WMB