What constitutes an "attempt to advance"?

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Tue May 30, 2017, 02:22pm

bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline

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You're overthinking it. "Steal" and "squeeze" are examples, but the rule means that the runner is advancing (hard) at the time of the OBS. It's to prevent a wily F2 from intentionally interfering when the runner has such a good jump that there's not going to be a play on him.

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