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Old Tue Jul 29, 2008, 08:24pm
Nevadaref Nevadaref is offline
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Originally Posted by Mwanr1
I disagree with the above statement. I find that more often it is a block than a charge.

A philosophy I picked up from a veteran D1 official is that if both players are going into each other, as shown here: i -> <- i, then we have a block.

If it is i<-i and in result to this: \<-\, then it's a charge.


The key is to referee the defense. Pick up the secondary defender IMMEDIATELY. If I missed the secondary defender and I have to guess, I'm going to be wrong.



I'm also a big fan of this pictoral representation of block/charge situations. It isn't perfect, but it certainly will cover the vast majority of plays.
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