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The Rough Play (repeated from 2001-02 - and when they repeat it, I'd say that some of us JUST AREN'T GETTING IT) also says, "defenders are not permitted to have hands on the dribbler!" (notice exclamation point).
It then goes on to say, "hand checking is not incidental contact; it gives a tremendous advantage to the person illegally using their hands." You'd have to be pretty hard-headed to think that displacement is required here. If the defense controls the offensive player at all you have a foul.
Rut, you cite Rule 4-27. Note that article 3 of 4-27 says, "contact which does not hinder the opponent from participating in normal defensive or offensive movements should be considered incidental." I can think of a lot of handchecking that hinders offensive movement without displacement. But then again, I'm just quoting from the rulebook which and obviously the NFHS rules committee knows far less about how the games should be called than your assignors.
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