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Originally Posted by HLin NC
Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
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"Anyone not obviously a back or end"? So the burden is on players of A to show they're not interior line players?
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So who else would the "burden" be on? |
Nobody. You just look and see, no thumb on the scale.
This problem was made by the rules makers when they defined "snapper" analogously to "passer", "kicker", etc. but didn't realize that when they defined the position of players on the line as relative to the snapper in the 1940s, and had certain provisions relating to players on A's line
before the ball is snapped, they needed another definition. NCAA's current definition of "snapper" does not have this problem...
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2-27-8: The snapper is the player who snaps the ball. He is established as the snapper when he takes a position behind the ball and touches or simulates (hand[s] at or below his knees) touching the ball (Rule 7-1-3).
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...but Fed's still does.