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Mon Sep 14, 2009, 09:10am

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Originally Posted by mbyron

The horse-collar tackle rule applies specifically to a "runner," who by definition has the ball.

Grabbing the collar of a non-runner sounds like a hold to me, although some leeway usually goes to tackling a fake runner. Officials' judgment.

My thoughts too, as you said, leeway is given to tackling fake runners, so I was wondering if the reverse would be true as well, regarding the HC.

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