is the south carolina / clemson game state law?
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What is your question?
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Under a strict interpretation of the rules: yes, you are right.\n\nBut since rules mean only what they are interpreted to mean, and players play knowing the prevailing interpretation: no, because officials allow that extra step.
793948
Sorry. It was already pre-ordained. The BCS is a sham. Just ask Auburn how they felt after getting shut out of the title game in 2004.
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Yes I think it is. I don't think it would cause problems for the refs though. I think that they shouldn't make an exception and I don't think that they should change the rules. Honestly how would the refs think he is a QB. He will be running different postions and the Refs hopefully have enough of a brain to know the difference by postion. The point though is that the NFL assigns numbers in a certain way. It is for the Fans, the Refs, and the Announcers basically. It also keeps it from the confusion in college where it well just pick a number that isn't retired. Assigning a set of numbers to a postion makes it easy. Then add in that these players are around a lot longer it makes sense to want guidelines.
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Under Rule 4-1/Ball in Play, Dead Bal, it talks about when the play should be called dead.  Under Article 3B, it says:\n\n"(Exception: The ball remains alive when an offensive player has simulated a kick or is in position to kick the ball held for a place kick by a teammate.  The ball may be kicked, passed or advanced by rule)"\n\nSo, I guess it's officially covered.  I found it on page 75 of the official NCAA football rules:\n\nhttp://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2005/2005_football_rules.pdf
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You only get called for sliding into others/punching people if intentional. You are only allowed to use your hands inside the 18 yard box. your are only allowed to hold the ball (distribution wise) for 6 seconds.
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Wilson is the official ball of the NFL and does not have the stripes you are talking about.  The NCAA loves endorsement money (just don't give it the players), so companies like Nike can pay for their ball to be on the field.
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Years ago, it was the line of scrimmage. But a couple of years ago the rules were changed. Now the ball goes over at the point where the ball was kicked.
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I know the game! The bean-bag tossing game, right? But I'm with you, everytime I bring it up no one knows what I'm talking about. We played in Indiana. Maybe it's just a midwest thing.\n\nBut still, I tend to think of "A" when I hear it.\n\nUPDATE: According to the following article, it may have originated in Cincinnati and has spread throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee ans West Virginia. So it is a midwest thing. \nhttp://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/07/14/spt_worlds_best-kept.html\n\nDid you know there is an American Cornhole Association? I think that's hilarious.\nhttp://www.playcornhole.org/
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No, it has only been allowed since the 2001-2002 season, when they took the following determinations:\n1-Eliminated all existing illegal defense guidelines. \n2-Established a defensive 3-second rule, limiting the amount of time a defensive player may stand in the lane when he is not closely guarding someone. \n3-Reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds the amount of time a team will have to advance the ball past midcourt.\n4-Eliminated touch fouls by allowing brief contact initiated by a defensive player if it does not impede the progress of the player with the ball. \n\nHope this clarifies your doubts.
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During the 1820s a group of students at Princeton began playing what was then known as 'ballown'. There were no hard and fast rules applied to this earliest attempt at the game we now call football. At Harvard, the freshman and sophomore classes competed in a football-type game played on the first Monday of each school year. This event came to be known as 'Bloody Monday' because of the roughness of the game. Pick up games, similar in style to that played on 'Bloody Monday', soon became popular on the Boston Common, catching on in popularity around 1860. Soon after the end of the American Civil War, around 1865, colleges began organizing football games. \n\nIn 1867, Princeton led the way in establishing some rudimentary rules of the game. Also in that year, the football itself was patented for the very first time.\n\nIn 1873, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale met in New York City to formulate the first intercollegiate football rules for the increasingly popular game still being played with many of the rules of soccer. These four teams established the Intercollegiate Football Association, and set the number of players allowed on each team as fifteen. Walter Camp, the coach at Yale with a desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modern game of American Football. The IFA 's rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at 110 yards. In 1882 Camp also introduced the system of downs, but the system of downs was not finished until 1912, when the fourth down was added. Tackling below the waist was legalized in 1888.
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Not exactly sure, but this is the employment link to the NCAA (.org). Hope this nudges you in the right direction.\n\nhttp://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4j3CQHJgFjGpvqRqCKOcAFvfV-P_NxU_QD9gtzQiHJHRUUAbGvNAw!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfTFU!?CONTENT_URL=http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/employment/
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University of South Carolina, but you must be a Clemson fan because you called South Carolina by the wrong name.
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state laws overrule federal
633644
It's called doctoring the ball. It's illegal
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in the nfl, this is a tricky one.  The trap requires a "down block" by the lineman that sets the hole and a "kick-out block/ hook block" by the pulling lineman.  As long as both blocks are made legally (no chop, holding, etc.) the trap is a legal play.  to further specify a chop block is when an engaged defensive player (already being blocked) is hit below the waist by another blocker... the old high/low!
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Some of this has already been addressed:\n\n1.  Down by contact in the NFL; down if knee touches in college.\n2.  Pass interference is a spot foul in the NFL; in college, it's a spot foul up to 15 yards.\n3.  No 2-minute warning in college football.\n4.  No 5-yard illegal contact rule in college football.\n5.  Receiver must have 2 feet down in the NFL and catches count if the receiver is pushed out of bounds but would have come down in bounds; in college, only have to get one foot down but defender can push receiver out of bounds to make pass incomplete.\n6.  Overtime rules are vastly different.  In pros, play is as in regulation with the first team scoring winning; if no one scores in 15 minutes, the game ends in a tie.  In college, each team is given one possession from the opponent's 25 yard line.  If the score is still tied, it continues until there is a difference.  Beginning with the third OT, teams must go for 2 point conversion after a TD.\n7.  Goal posts are wider in college than in the pros, and the hash marks are not lined up with the goalposts (they are wider).