This land is your land
introduced the term "no man’s land" at the end of Part XIV with the tease that you need to be able to identify clearly a player who is lined up in a position that makes him neither a lineman nor a back. If you’ve done your homework in the rulebook, you’ll know that when Team A lines up, there needs to be at least 7 players who meet the definition of a lineman. The remaining players (commonly 4 in number, but technically at least 1) need to meet the definition of a back. Let’s first review those lineman and back definitions:
A lineman is any A player who is facing his opponent’s goal line with the line of his shoulders approximately parallel thereto and with his head or foot breaking an imaginary plane drawn parallel to the line of scrimmage through the waist of the snapper when the ball is snapped. NFHS 2-31-9
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