Is This Player Control?

[rainmaker]

MTD -- Isn't there a sentence somewhere in the rule book about responsibility for contact being on the player who's behind the other? I seem to remember someting about that, but I can't find it.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

MTD -- Isn't there a sentence somewhere in the rule book about responsibility for contact being on the player who's behind the other? I seem to remember someting about that, but I can't find it.

Juulie:

Yes there is. But I can't remember if it is in the guarding or screening rules. I really shouldn't be online since I have a bad head cold and my family wouldn't let me go to our sons' swim meet this afternoon so I could stay home and rest. So here I am very bored and making posts. LOL

MTD, Sr.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

So here I am very bored and making posts..

Bored on the board?? lol

I'm camping on the board a lot lately, staying home a lot, not feeling real well. I'm finding it bracing and uplifting arguing with people. Especially when I'm right. It's not so much fun when I turn out to be wrong!!

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

MTD -- Isn't there a sentence somewhere in the rule book about responsibility for contact being on the player who's behind the other? I seem to remember someting about that, but I can't find it.

4-27-5: ...if, however, a player approaches an opponent from behind or from a position from which he/she has no reasonable chance to play the ball without making contact with the opponent, the responsibility is on the player in the unfavorable position.