Is This Player Control?

[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.