Runners hurdling tacklers....

[gamecockox]

I believe sooner or later a player is going to get seriously hurt doing this. With the whole targeting and defenseless player rules, I am surprised no one has mentioned this.

 

[92Pony]

I believe sooner or later a player is going to get seriously hurt doing this. With the whole targeting and defenseless player rules, I am surprised no one has mentioned this.

Wait for it........ soon there will be a "hurdling rule", where "a ball carrier may not leave his feet in an attempt to hurdle a defender attempting to make a tackle".

 

[alistair_10]

That rule already exists in high school, and it has for a LONG time. 15 yard personal foul.

 

[ShannonL]

That rule already exists in high school, and it has for a LONG time. 15 yard personal foul.

I seem to remember Ryan Bethea being penalized for this in a USC game. When did the rule change?

 

[king ward]

It's a terrible rule.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

I seem to remember Ryan Bethea being penalized for this in a USC game. When did the rule change?

I was going to say the same thing, I thought at one time it was illegal

 

[HI Cock]

 

[funktavious]

I had to look up the BYU player and I can't believe he wasn't suspended for that. "Bronco says OL Ului Lapuaho has had internal team discipline imposed for his personal foul v. BSU; will not require missing any game time." I wonder what that discipline was. He probably had to read a few chapters from the book of Joseph Smith. smh

 

[hahnenkampf]

That rule already exists in high school, and it has for a LONG time. 15 yard personal foul.

Yep — I was an official with the Ohio High School Football Officials Association back in 1982 and as the Referee in a varsity game was trailing the running back when he successfully hurdled a defender and gained another five yards. I threw the flag and penalized the offense 15 yards from the spot. The coaching staff and fans went nuts. The head coach called a time out and angrily told me no such penalty existed whereupon I told him to read the rule book during halftime — he’d find it. It’s a dangerous thing to do.