spot violation

[Rich]

Originally Posted by representing

Not sure, but been told by some elder officials that years ago you would call a travel violation. He could be right or wrong, but I don't have any rulebooks older than then 2004-2005 season when I first started.

For as long as I've been officiating it was never a called a travel.

We have a Mr. Rules locally. I wouldn't trust him with an interpretation from this year, let alone something "years ago."

The easy way around relying on others for information is to have the best knowledge of the rules in your area. That's done by, oh, studying the rulebook.