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Originally Posted by bigjohn
SECTION 9 UNFAIR ACTS
ART. 1 . . . A player or nonplayer or person(s) not subject to the rules shall not
hinder play by an unfair act which has no specific rule coverage.
I guess you can say there is rules coverage. Illegal batting, encroachment but I say 9-9-1 gives you rule coverage to call USC on the NG. even eject if you think blatant.
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NF: 9-9-1 is intended to cover the really, REALLY unusual circumstances that nobody writing rules was able to anticipate. Most likely, no individual official will ever encounter a situation calling for evoking this rule, will never meet another official who ever found it necessary to evoke this rule, or will ever even hear about this rule being enforced.
This "Unfair Act" rule (with the possible exception of new Article 4) has about the same ratio to "Hurdling" being enforced, as Hurdling does to "Flase Start". It's there to cover really, REALLY flagrant exceptions, and nothing else.