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Originally Posted by WestMichBlue
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
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I thought the definition of malicious in the rule books as opposed to the dictionary is forceful, not about intent.