[Husker] Where linemen line up

[James Dean]

Mike was right, it was quite a search to find the rule on where a lineman must line up, but, hey, I like a challenge.

Here is, I believe, the defining rule from page 39 of the rule book found at ncaa.org.

Link to rule book is: http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/FR12.pdf

See 2 (b) below ...


Lineman and Back
ARTICLE 4. a. Lineman.
1. A lineman is any Team A player legally on his scrimmage line (Rule
2-21-2).
2. A Team A player is on his scrimmage line when he faces his opponent’s
goal line with the line of his shoulders approximately parallel thereto and
either (a) he is the snapper (Rule 2-27-8) or (b) his head breaks the plane
of the line drawn through the waistline of the snapper.


Jim Dean
UNL 64-66/68-71