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I agree with both of your posts and would rule on them that way. However in my last paragraph I get into the wording they are using in the rules about "line." In one part of the rule they talk about the "end of his line" and "behind his line." I suspect that these "lines" were meant to be the same thing when origianally written and thus the lineman must do more than just turn around. Even the rule says that in that both feet must have moved which indicates to me more than just a pirouette.
When they specify the term "behind his line," if they meant to specify that his line was to be his side of the neutral zone then I think they would have said that.
This is just some more funny wording which may have not been meant to indicate what it means to us today. I have never seen this play and hope to never see it.
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