Thread: Elbow contact
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Old Wed Jan 21, 2015, 01:53pm
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Originally Posted by bainsey View Post
Generally speaking, where do you folks draw the line between intentional and flagrant on these elbows to the head?
When deciding between intentional and flagrant in a situation like this, the book definitions give us some great adjectives to aid in the decision-making process. 4-19-3d gives one definition of an intentional foul as "Excessive contact with an opponent..." and 4-19-4 says a flagrant foul may be "a...foul of a violent or savage nature..."

So, if you think the contact is merely excessive, it's an intentional foul. If you think the contact is violent or savage, it should be a flagrant foul and the offender should be disqualified. It's impossible to pass judgment on a play without seeing video, but in OP, it sounds like H1 has excessively contacted an opponent and is thus guilty of an intentional personal foul.
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