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[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

You make an good point about the definition of a player and his status during the halftime intermission. There is no disputing that.

However, we need to consider some other things too.

1. When does the halftime intermission start? Normally it starts with the ending of the second quarter. If someone is injured on that final play, is this still the case?

The quarter ends when the ball becomes dead...which is when time expires or an airborne try ends or after all FTs have been shot. A player that is injured as the quarter ends does not extend the quarter.

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

2. What was the status of the kid at the time he became injured? Let's see the ball was live during the 2nd quarter...seems like he was a player.
Does that matter?
3-3-5 says "a player who has been injured." Has been is past tense. Should 3-3-5 apply to him or does his status immediately revert to bench personnel with the sounding of the horn (ending of the try for goal), and thus this kid is a team member who is being treated on the court by bench personnel? These are definitely questions that we should attempt to answer in striving to make the correct ruling.

The time that the player is injured is not relevant. What is relevant is when the player is attended to....which is during intermission.

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

3. What if the situation takes 20 minutes to resolve? Let's say that the player hit his head and they won't risk moving him until the trainer on site says he can get up. Furthermore, suppose that the kid turns out to be ok and those treating him were just being extra cautious. Can he now take the court to start the 3rd quarter? The team trainer/doctor says that it is fine.

Not gonna happen....but an interesting question. Not sure. I think he was unconcioius.