Horse Collar or Not?

[JRod37]

It was explained to me that if the horse collar grab was the force that pulled the runner to the ground then it should be a HCT. So if you thought that the runner was pulled down by the shoulder pads regardless of any other part of the body then if it were me I would have called HCT.

I had a similar situation last night. I know I technically got the call wrong by rule, but the tackle was so violent that there's no way I wouldn't call this.

B1 grabbed A1 by the inside of the shoulder pads in the back. As A1 and B1 were engaged B2 added another arm to the tackle in the front. However, the force of B2 had no affect on A1. As B2 was touching A1, B1 pulled the runner backwards and down by the inside of the shoulder pads.

Basically, in my opinion, B2 had no true affect on the force of the tackle so I flagged it. I know by high school rule that since B2 was involved somehow in the tackle it should not have been. But if we keep letting that go, someone's really going to get hurt!