Thread: Handchecking?
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Old Tue Jan 15, 2008, 02:39pm
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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
Got into an interesting rules discussion with my assigner recently. He doesn't call handchecks. Not because he doesn't think it's a foul, but because handchecking doesn't exist in the rule book.

Now you know I don't get too tightly wound about terminology, but it turns out he's right. I can't find the word anywhere. But we've got a signal for it. I don't think there's much disagreement about what handchecking is. But there's no rule that defines it.

Weird.
So when someone commits the act that some people call handchecking, does he call pushing? or illegal use of hands? Or does he just not call anything because "The NFHS hasn't given us a neat and tidy little definition?"
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