When is a ball carrier out of bounds? When he is airborne near the sideline, diving forward, is the ball spotted where it first broke the sideline plane?
For instance: 1 & G, runner dives from 5yl for EZ and ball breaks the EZ plane, but outside the SL marker. Is the ball spotted back from where he went airborne? Is it spotted at the 1 inch line, or where we judge the ball to have broken the SL plane? This may be clear somewhere in the Rule Book, but this just came up at lunch, and I have no reference materials with me.
2nd yr. ump
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