Contact with the thrower...Hmmmm...

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

OK, now that I've got a few replies as I expected I would get....next question....


What if you had a thrower who saw a stationary/vertical defender within arms reach of the throwin boundary and the thrower extended their arms across the throwin plane such it resulted in contact between the defender and thrower (either with the defenders arms or any other part of their body)?

Does the interpretation above still define that to be an IPF on the defender?

I am going to go out on a limb and say no. That could be wrong, but I think they need to clarify more about this rule. I see where they were going, but it should have said something if the defender are not responsible for the contact like if they were not trying to block or contact the ball or were clearly on their side of the line.

Peace