OLD Stalling Rule

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

The "lack of action" rule that I laid out was long-gone by 1992....by a minimum of at least 10 years. When they went to 5 seconds, that was the start of the 5-second closely guarded rule, which got modified to what it used today. Today's closely-guarded rule IS a lack-of-action rule, with the onus put on the defense to force the action...if they want to.

I started in the early 1980's and I remember the "whole nine yards" lack of action rule lasting only a few years, which makes Jurassic Referee's estimate of a minimum of ten years before 1992 right on.

Could somebody find an old rule book and find out when, and possibly why, the "whole nine yards" lack of action rule was deleted, not just revised.