Rules Question????

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by SC Ump

Unless you have really, really long arms.

Actually I posed a "long reach" question to the editor of the NCAA football rules committee some time in the 1990s. At that time the rules regarding position of a player on the line were written in a way to suggest "hands" and "arms" were separate items from "body", and it looked as though you could line up with 7 other players on the line standing so as not to occupy much space, and a player with a long reach snapping the ball from the backfield. He said not, and eventually the wording was changed to eliminate that confusion.

Robert