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Originally Posted by HLin NC
There isn't one. But since we can infer that held is with the hands, why would the Fed use the term controlled in the same definition?
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At one time I thought it was to put hysteresis into the concept of possession, because Fed (differently from NCAA) adds to the definition, "after having gained" it by a listing of different means. I thought maybe they meant that first gaining possession might require a firmer grasp on the ball than maintaining possession did. Later I decided that was probably not what they meant.
NFL is using the earlier wording, the
and instead of the
or. Some time after 1960 and before 1978, Fed changed it to an "or"; I don't know when NCAA did.