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Originally Posted by NEWOFFICIAL
Im struggling with with an issue from the Reddings Guide....Page 38 2007 edition....PASSING GAME ....
Receiver A 83 runs along sideline takes two steps out of bounds and jumps while in air (a ) catches the ball and lands inbounds...(b) bats the ball to A87 inbounds who catches the ball....while A 83 lands out of bounds...
Ruling in both a and b the ball remains live and the catch is legal...In ( a) A83 is guilty of illegal participation....
How in (b) is the catch legal ..and isnt A83 guilty of illegal participation on that as well ?
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The 2008 Redding Guide contains the same play. Here is the next paragraph:
"In the preceding example, the receiver was not out of bounds when he touched the ball since he was airborne, and not touching out of bounds when he contacted the ball. He is, however, guilty of IP (9.6.1D 2003 Ed.) which is discussed in Chapter 10".
In the play he says (a) is IP and (b) isn't but in the explanation in the next paragraph I quoted above, he says "He is guilty of IP" but doesn't distinguish whether he's talking about only (a) or both (a) and (b). Maybe someone has the '03 Case Book? But in the meantime I think I will go with Rogers Redding and George Demetriou and their 70 yrs of experience.