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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
Jayb: you're right. I misread the "no more than." However, 5 on the line and 4 in the backfield (or even 1 in the backfield) is now a legal formation and it never has been. Or at least, hasn't been in a long, long time. I don't understand the impetus for the change when it wasn't necessary.
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I think it's long overdue. I don't know why the rule was ever written the way it has been instead of this new way to begin with. In Canadian football the requirement was also written as a minimum number on the line, but with an additional statement that if team A is short players that minimum is adjusted downward commensurately.
Robert