NF: Pushing a teammate

[Jim D]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

I have been to many, many high school football games and playoff games and have never, EVER, seen this called!

The reason you've never seen it called is that I've never seen it happen. If I saw it, I'd call it.

[Warrenkicker]

The rule specifies that the hands must provide the added force. I would guess that most times if force is added it comes through shoulders or arms.

If I see them stack on defense just before a kick I will watch in that area for the pull-and-shoot. I have yet to ever see defensive players trying to push each other this way. I have seen the pull-and-shoot though it hasn't been successful when I saw it.

[bossman72]

This was legal in NCAA until this year. We used to run a field goal block called a "double push" where we lined up 2 d-linemen over the guard and 2 linebackers had their hands on their backside and would push the d-linemen.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by bossman72

This was legal in NCAA until this year. We used to run a field goal block called a "double push" where we lined up 2 d-linemen over the guard and 2 linebackers had their hands on their backside and would push the d-linemen.

They could still do it legally as a wedge, pushing shoulders on butt cheeks.

Hey, it wasn't too long ago that NCAA specifically allowed pyramiding as long as it wasn't feet-on-shoulders.

Robert

[waltjp]

Originally Posted by Warrenkicker

The rule specifies that the hands must provide the added force. I would guess that most times if force is added it comes through shoulders or arms.

If I see them stack on defense just before a kick I will watch in that area for the pull-and-shoot. I have yet to ever see defensive players trying to push each other this way. I have seen the pull-and-shoot though it hasn't been successful when I saw it.

I've never seen the pull-and-shoot but I have seen a player line up behind one of his linemen and push him into the line. I flagged it. As you can expect, after we explained it to the coach his was irate and stated that he never heard of such a thing.