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There is no foul for a cut block on the ballcarrier. What you described would also be a chop block, which is also not illegal against the ballcarrier.

Cavman1, I'll respectfully disagree with you. A member of Team B does not lose his protection by crossing the restraining line after the ball has been kicked. If the ball has only travelled 11 yards so far and a member of Team B advances to try to recover it and is blocked from doing so by a...

There is no change to that rule for six-man football in general or TAPPS specifically. Your interpretation is also correct.

Mertzon, Texas Irion County https://texasbob.com/stadium/stadium.php?id=526

In short, no. Rule 6-1-a states, in part, that "The referee will declare the ball ready for play when the officials are in position after the kicker has received the ball." There is no provision for extra time for the receiving team to get in position, or even to get a full team of players on...

Assuming the first down is gained inbounds with no other administrative stoppages, the game clock stops on the official's signal at the end of the play. The game clock will start back up again on the Referee's signal (winding the clock) once the ball is spotted again for play. The chains...

10-4, just wanted to clarify. Thanks for responding!

For the first one you mentioned, where on the defender's body was the force of the block? The front (10-2 on the clock of his area of concentration) or from the side?

For those of you following back up -- that rule has been completely rewritten for 2022. Not going to go into all the details here unless there is a desire for it.

The rules mentioned above was approved and will be part of Texas 6-man football this season.

If you haven't yet, get in contact with your local TASO (Texas Association of Sports Officials) chapter. The Secretary is the assigning officer, so that's the individual with whom you'll need to communicate.

JasonTX is right that he can legally serve as the snapper. What he can't do, however, is go downfield on a play where there is a forward pass that crosses the neutral zone. He isn't illegal to serve as an interior lineman, but he is ineligible as a receiver.

Should NOT have been 1st and 30. Until the referee blows the ready for the next play, we're still in transition between possession and it should be a 15-yard penalty but still 1st and 15. Ran into a similar situation a few weeks ago where a receiver dropped a pass on 4th down and then the...

You're right that the interpretation of this rule is something that varies too much, far more than it should from official to official, crew to crew, and chapter to chapter. This is purely a safety rule -- a horse-collar tackle is an action very likely to cause serious injury to the ball carrier...

Point of clarification on "it also doesn't allow running backs, to tun outside the box, and then come back in to cut." Once the ball crosses the neutral zone, there is no prohibition on a player cutting "back toward the original position of the ball" or "inside" or anything like that as long as...