[Husker] kick reception interference

[Scott Stewart]

Thank you Ted for saying that. I was thinking the same thing. "impede" does
not require touching. Also, on the second call, I recall seeing many calls
of that nature before the "halo" rule. When I played (before a halo rule,
but after leather helmets), I was taught you had to give the receiver a
chance to catch the ball and having your helmet in his chest did not meet
that criteria. ;)

scott

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Theodore Heise <theo at heise.nu> wrote:

>
>
> So the announcers yesterday really made a big deal about the interference
> calls against UW--especially the first one.  Part of the rule they read
> mentioned that the defense cannot impede the receiver from catching the
> ball.  They noted that no UW player had touched the receiver, but if a
> player from the kicking team is standing in the place where the ball is
> coming down, isn't that
> impeding the receiver from making the catch?
>
> The announcers noted that there is no longer a halo, but even without a
> halo the receiver should be allowed to get into the position needed to make
> the catch.  Granted, the NU player tripped over a teammate and was somewhat
> off balance, but even so he seemed to be prevented from getting to the
> appropriate fielding location by the presence of a UW player.
>
> On that basis, it seemed to be at least a not unreasonable call.
>
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> Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA
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