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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by chymechowder

actually, I can't see that the Fed runner is not exempt. not from your quote of the Fed rules anyway.

you gave the definiton of hurdling (which is, practically speaking, identical to the ncaa's). but you didn't quote the Fed rule against hurdling.

my point being that the ncaa definition makes no mention of the exemption either. we don't get the exemption until 9-1-2-i:

There shall be no hurdling (Exception: The ball carrier may hurdle an opponent.).

Any chance there actually is a Fed exception? No disrespect or second-guessing intended! I mention this only b/c I've worked games with Mass. officials who flagged the ballcarrier for hurdling. When we got together, they were aware of the definition, but not of the exception.

There is no exception to a rule unless stated clearly. You just showed the NCAA and their language and they clearly give an exception to the runner. You just cannot hurdle by rule and that is all you need to know. And at least in the casebook there are plays (or there once were) that made it clear there were no exceptions to this rule. It is like the numbering exception. There is an exception to the numbering rules if a team is in a certain formation. The same logic applies here with this or any other rule.

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