interlocked blocking ... or not?

[ljudge]

Originally posted by kentref
To update:
Our white hat contacted the Iowa association and their response was that as long as the players released (their grasp of one another) before any blocking, that that would be legal.

The same goes for New Jersey. A crew had called this foul last weekend and the coach called my President / Rules Interpreter who in turned e-mailed me earlier this week because I was the R for that same team last night. Of course it came up in my preGame conference with the coach. He said we hold hands and release just after the snap. I was told this was legal and told the coach not to worry it wouldn't be called this week.