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Old Mon Sep 14, 2009, 09:03am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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The horse-collar tackle rule applies specifically to a "runner," who by definition has the ball.

Grabbing the collar of a non-runner sounds like a hold to me, although some leeway usually goes to tackling a fake runner. Officials' judgment.
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