Foul / No Foul - NCAA Football

[ref1990]

Immediately after the snap with A in scrimmage kick formation, B94 attemps to shoot the gap and makes initial contact with the right guard. In doing so, B94 places his right hand on the snapper and uses it as leverage to leap through the gap. Is this a legal move by B94 for NCAA Football?

[Robert Goodman]

New AR 9-1-14 (III) says that if B94 started from outside the frame of the snapper, incidental contact with the snapper is legal. Unfortunately its wording is unclear about whether the tactic you describe (in which apparently the contact with the guard and snapper is simultaneous) is incidental or non-incidental contact. The snapper's head's being down does put him at a disadvantage in preventing a swim move, but such an act doesn't seem to pose the danger that the provision seems to be directed against.