HS game. Player has 4-5 blood spots on white uniform and very noticable. I confront player & find he has open wound on his hand. Player is removed, coach buys him back into game on a full time-out, wound covered, bleeding stopped. Opposing coach complains that he should not be allowed in game with blood on uniform. I rule it is not excessive.
My fellow officials say player should not be allowed...I say the blood was not excessive.
Where is the line drawn on EXCESSIVE?

I don't have my reference material with me but I believe the criteria is something about "transferable." Check last years rule book, or the year before.

"Obvious" isn't a criteria. Is the blood transferable to another player? 5 spots... probably not.

I believe that "saturated" plays into that somewhere as well. If a jersey is saturated, the blood can be transfered by contact.

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A player who is bleeding, has an open wound, has an excessive amount of blood on his/her uniform, or has blood on his/her person, shall be directed to leave the game, unless a time-out is requested by, and granted to, his/her team and the situation can be corrected by the end of the time-out.

It is still left to the official's judgement what "excessive" is. I personally have used the term saturated to opposing coaches who question my judgement of excessive.