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	NFL Rules
		An eligible receiver is considered to be an obstructing opponent ONLY to a point five yards beyond the line of scrimmage unless the player who receives the snap clearly demonstrates no further intention to pass the ball.
		Eligible receivers lined up within two yards of the tackle, whether on or immediately behind the line, may be blocked below the waist at or behind the line of scrimmage.
		An eligible receiver who, at the snap, is aligned or in motion behind the line and more than one yard outside the end man on his side of the line, clearly making him the outside receiver, replaces that end man as the player eligible to go downfield after the snap.
	members.tripod.com /refereestats/rules.htm (9383 words)

	Forward Pass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Eligible receivers on the offensive team are players on either end of line (other than center, guard, or tackle) or players at least one yard behind the line at the snap.
		If a receiver would have landed inbounds with both feet but is carried or pushed out of bounds while maintaining possession of the ball, pass is complete at the out-of-bounds spot.
		If an eligible receiver goes out of bounds accidentally or is legally forced out by a defender and returns to first touch and catch a pass, the play is regarded as an incomplete pass.
	www.atlantafalcons.com /fans/article.jsp?id=2501 (696 words)

	LaBelle Community Football League Eastern Division
		Exception: An eligible receiver is considered to be an obstructing opponent ONLY to a point five yards beyond the line of scrimmage unless the player who receives the snap clearly demonstrates no further intention to pass the ball.
		During a kick from scrimmage, only the end men, as eligible receivers on the line of scrimmage at the time of the snap, are permitted to go beyond the line before the ball is kicked.
		Exception: An eligible receiver who, at the snap, is aligned or in motion behind the line and more than one yard outside the end man on his side of the line, clearly making him the outside receiver, replaces that end man as the player eligible to go downfield after the snap.
	www.lcfl.org /west/rules.html (9381 words)

	Eligible receiver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If the pass is received by a non-eligible receiver, the penalty for ineligible receiver is assessed (the play is treated as an incomplete pass, unless the ball is downed behind the line of scrimmage - in either case a down is lost).
		In most cases where a pass is caught by an ineligible receiver, it is usually because the quarterback was under pressure and threw it to an offensive lineman out of desperation.
		Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, eligible receivers may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one eligible receiver may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the receiver must be still for a full second before the snap.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eligible_receiver (679 words)

	Ask the Falcons - 5/12/04
		However, if the receiver catches the ball in the end zone but doesn't get both feet down because he is pushed or carried out by a defender -- and by the official's judgment, he would have landed inbounds with both feet -- the pass is complete and would be a touchdown.
		The offense can potentially have five eligible on a play and is required to have seven of their 11 men on the line of scrimmage at the start of the play.
		Players eligible for passes are the end men on the line of scrimmage and any offensive player who lines up at least one yard behind the line of scrimmage, except for the quarterback.
	www.atlantafalcons.com /fans/article.jsp?id=2720 (1084 words)

	Rom Gilbert Football Home Page - 2001 Mini Missives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The pass hits ineligible receiver A67 on the shoulder on A's 49 and is caught by eligible receiver A88 on B's 48.
		The pass hits ineligible receiver A67 in the back on A's 49 and falls incomplete near eligible receiver A88's feet on (a) A's 48; or (b) B's 48.
		Eligible receiver A88 had a reasonable opportunity to catch the ball when A67 made the catch.
	members.atlantic.net /~gilbertr/p-0107.htm (567 words)

	SuicideSports- NFL Fantasy Football Central
		Extending an arm across the body of a receiver thus restricting his ability to catch a pass, regardless of whether the defender is playing the ball.
		Hooking the receiver in an attempt to get to the ball in such a manner that it causes the receiver's body to turn prior to the ball arriving.
		Whenever a team presents an apparent punting formation, defensive pass interference is not to be called for action on the end man at the line of scrimmage, or an eligible receiver behind the line of scrimmage who is aligned or in motion more than one yard outside the end man of the line.
	www.suicidesports.com /nflrules.htm (9668 words)

	FSWildcats.com Rules of the Game
		The receiving team may (a) accept the ball where it went out of bounds, (b) ask for a re-kick after a five-yard penalty, or (c) take the ball 25 yards from the spot where it was kicked.
		The receiving team could either (a) take the ball at their own 20, (b) ask for a re-kick from the kicking team's 35, or (c) take the ball at their own 35; i.e., 25 yards from where the ball was kicked.
		Players are ineligible to receive a pass either by number (eligible receivers must be numbered 1-49 or 80-99) or by position (eligible receivers must be positioned in the backfield or on the end of the line of scrimmage).
	www.dannyperdue.com /fswildcats2/Rules/rules.htm (1920 words)

	frontline: cyber war!: interviews: john hamre \| PBS
		It was kind of a core element of Eligible Receiver, this exercise that we conducted with the Defense Department, now five years ago.
		Eligible Receiver changed a lot of our consciousness about the vulnerability of cyber warfare -- not completely through society, by any means -- but certainly within the defense establishment.
		During Eligible Receiver, the success of the red team was only one-tenth of 1 percent, but that's enough to get control of the entire network.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/interviews/hamre.html (5751 words)

	Eligible Receiver
		The ELIGIBLE RECEIVER series of exercises are directed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and are designed to test DOD planning and crisis action capabilities.
		ELIGIBLE RECEIVER 97-1, as well as several other IO-based exercises, disclosed several human vulnerabilities in the cyber world, including the ease with which Red Team personnel "socially engineered" Department of Defense (DoD) personnel and the vast amount of valuable information the Red Team was able to collect from the Internet on a daily basis.
		ELIGIBLE RECEIVER 1997 (9-13 June 1997) was a no-notice Joint Staff Exercise designed to test DoD planning and crisis action capabilities when faced with attacks on DoD information infrastructures.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/eligible-receiver.htm (579 words)

	The meaning of Eligible Receiver. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Eligible Receiver: A Pentagon ghost story repeated ad nauseum to journalists and the easily frightened in which ludicrous or totally unsubstantiated claims about menaces from cyberspace are passed off as astonishing deeds of techno-legerdemain performed by cybersoldiers working within a highly classified wargame.
		She went on to say that Eligible Receiver had only simulated these attacks on NSA computer networks set up to emulate potential domestic national systems.
		Eligible Receiver was 'a very telling example for all of the senior leadership here,' says Susan Hansen, a [Pentagon flack] for Secretary of Defense William Cohen.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~crypt/other/eligib.htm (2598 words)

	Ironman Football League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		When a kickoff goes out of bounds between the goal lines without being touched by the receiving team, the ball belongs to the receivers 25 yards from the spot of the kick or at the out of bounds spot unless the ball went out of bounds the first time on onside kick was attempted.
		Exception: An eligible receiver is considered to be an obstructing opponent ONLY to a point 5 yards beyond the line of scrimmage unless the player who receives the snap clearly demonstrates no further intention to pass the ball.
		If an eligible receiver goes out of bounds accidentally or is forced out by a defender and returns to catch a pass, the play is regarded as a pass caught out of bounds.
	www.ironmanfootballleague.com /rules.html (7466 words)

	Football Announcements
		Receiver eligibility – Several calls concerning pass eligibility have come in during the last few days.
		BUT #55 is not an eligible receiver regardless of where he would line up.
		Officials that may have limited experience with 8-man may wonder or ask, “how do we keep track of eligibility since numbers are not a factor in determining eligibility”.
	www.kshsaa.org /FOOTBALL/fbweekly.html (1690 words)

	NFL Digest of Rules
		Fair Catch: An unhindered catch of a kick by a member of the receiving team who must raise one arm a full length above his head and wave his arm from side to side while the kick is in flight.
		Once the ball is touched by the receiving team or has gone 10 yards, it is a free ball.
		If the kickers foul during a kickoff, punt, safety kick, or field-goal attempt before possession changes, the receivers will have the option of replaying the down at the previous spot (offsetting fouls), or keeping the ball after enforcement for its fouls.
	www.supernfl.com /NFLRules.html (8762 words)

	NFL Playoffs 2002
		But they did not throw a flag when Rich Seubert was yanked to the ground as he tried to catch a pass near the end zone after the Giants bungled the field-goal attempt.
		Seubert was an eligible receiver even though he is usually a guard.
		The receiver was ineligible.'' However, it was unclear if he was referring to Seubert or Tam Hopkins, who lined up as the left guard and was illegally downfield on the pass.
	espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs02/s/2003/0106/1487933.html (940 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Super Bowl XXXVII -- Officials' calls are not always immaculate
		The NFL later ruled that the receiver, Rich Seubert, a guard who had lined up on the right of the New York team's field goal unit, was eligible.
		The Giants later said that before the game's kickoff, officials had been advised concerning who the team's eligible receivers would be in certain formations.
		Swearingen said it is the referee who is charged with keeping track of which players are eligible receivers on a particular play.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/20030108-9999_1s8officials.html (639 words)

	Football USA
		(d) Extending an arm across the body of a receiver thus restricting his ability to catch a pass, regardless of whether the defender is playing the ball.
		(f) Hooking the receiver in an attempt to get to the ball in such a manner that it causes the receiver's body to turn prior to the ball arriving.
		5: Whenever a team presents an apparent punting formation, defensive pass interference is not to be called for action on the end man at the line of scrimmage, or an eligible receiver behind the line of scrimmage who is aligned or in motion more than one yard outside the end man of the line.
	www.footballusa.com /rules/gamesproc2.htm (2410 words)

	NFLHS.com - Tips & Drills - OfficiatingRule Differences Between the NFL and High School Football
		The NFL allows a tackle to become an eligible receiver if he reports to the referee and is in a position on the end of the line or in the backfield when the ball is snapped.
		Under NFHS rules, a downfield receiver can be blocked as long as he is in front of the defender and is a potential blocker.
		Once the receiver reaches the same yardline as the defender or turns away from him so that a block is not possible, it is a foul for illegal use of hands if the receiver is contacted.
	www.nflhs.com /tipsdrills/officiating/officiating_03102000a_db.asp (911 words)

	SOME KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NCAA AND NFL RULES
		He must continue reporting on every play he stays in an eligible position and must be replaced if he is to no longer be in an eligible position.
		Pass Interference is defined as an act that significantly hinders a player’s (either an eligible offensive receiver or a defender) ability to attempt to reach a catchable forward pass.
		A foul is indicated if the ball is thrown into the area, not necessarily to the receiver who pushed.
	www.safootballchapter.us /NFLDIFFNCAA.htm (3544 words)

	War On Terrorism - Military and Cyber-Defense: Reactions to the Threat
		The primary motivation for the establishment of the initial unit, then known as Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense, in late 1998, was a series of exercises and real events that demonstrated to DoD that a fresh approach to the problem was necessary.
		Two principal factors were: Exercise Eligible Receiver 97, in which National Security Agency (NSA) personnel inflicted, in simulation, a large amount of damage upon defense networks; and, a computer hacking attack at first feared to be the work of Iraqi agents during a confrontation with Iraq in the Middle East in late 1998.
		Directed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and run from June 9-13, 1997, Eligible Receiver 97 was the first large-scale, no-warning military field exercise crafted to test the ability of the United States to respond to an attack on both U.S. military and civilian information infrastructure.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/cyberdefense-pr.cfm (1199 words)

	Big East officials: Right call was made - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The reason the officials were correct, according to Soffey, is that Pitt freshman tight end Erik Gill went from lining up as an ineligible receiver to an eligible receiver after shifting to the opposite side of the field in the Swinging Gate alignment.
		But, once he shifted to the other hash with six other players, he lined up in a spot that made him eligible to catch a pass, which is a violation.
		The Panthers and Gill were twice called for an illegal shift after setting up in the Swinging Gate, in which the snapper, holder, kicker and slot receiver line up on one side of the field and the seven other players line up on the opposite side.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_90528.html (657 words)

	American Football Rules Answers for Coaches
		Also, these receivers must be wearing a number other than 50 thru 79 to catch the pass.
		If the defender simply "reads" the receiver's face and then puts his hand up to try and knock the ball away from the receiver's hands, it is interference only if contact is made.
		Following the legal FAIR CATCH of any kick, the receiving team may choose to run a regular scrimmge play OR they may free kick the ball from the the yardline where the catch was made.
	homepages.cae.wisc.edu /~dwilson/rsfc/intro/johnson.shtml (3336 words)

	Rom Gilbert Football Home Page - Rule Change Requests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A.R. 9-3-4-I.5: During a legal forward pass that crosses the neutral zone, B1 holds eligible A1, who is behind the neutral zone.
		A foul behind the neutral zone against an eligible receiver is seldom because the eligible receiver will be in the pass pattern.
		The runner/passer is almost always an eligible pass receiver.
	members.atlantic.net /~gilbertr/rc01-er.htm (277 words)

	DefenseLINK News: DoD News Briefing, Thursday, April 16, 1998
		First is, ELIGIBLE RECEIVER is a game that was played by the Joint Staff last June.
		But because of ELIGIBLE RECEIVER and the subsequent attack by hackers against unclassified computer networks earlier this year, John Hamre, the deputy secretary of defense, has launched a number of initiatives to improve computer security in the Pentagon.
		The first is, of course, something that we achieved by holding ELIGIBLE RECEIVER, and in fact it was the point of ELIGIBLE RECEIVER which was to improve everybody's awareness of the threats posed to computer systems today.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/1998/04/t04161998_t0416asd-2.html (902 words)

	NFL Official Rules
		(Illegal cut) Note: Once the quarterback hands off or pitches the ball to a back, or if the quarterback leaves the pocket area, the restrictions (illegal chuck, illegal cut) on the defensive team relative to the offensive receivers will end, provided the ball is not in the air.
		The rules concerning a forward pass and ineligible receivers: (a) If ball is touched accidentally by an ineligible receiver on or behind his line: loss of five yards.
		(Failure to give proper sign: receivers' ball five yards behind spot of signal.) Note: It is legal for the receiver to shield his eyes from the sun by raising one hand no higher than the helmet.
	www.angelfire.com /ne/bluesurf/sports/nflrules.html (9418 words)

	Straight from the NFL rule book! - Oakland Raiders Forum \| Message Board - Where the Raider Nation lives!
		Eligible receivers on the offensive team are players on either
		quarterback is not eligible to receive a forward pass during a
		there needed to be an eligible receiver downfield to consider it a forward pass, and if it was a forward pass..
	www.raiderfans.net /forum/showthread.php?t=87659 (1342 words)

	frontline: cyber war!: the warnings? \| PBS
		Eligible Receiver is the code name of a 1997 internal exercise initiated by the Department of Defense.
		Although many details about Eligible Receiver are still classified, it is known that the red team was able to infiltrate and take control of the Pacific command center computers, as well as power grids and 911 systems in nine major U.S. cities.
		Moonlight Maze refers to a highly classified incident in which U.S. officials accidentally discovered a pattern of probing of computer systems at the Pentagon, NASA, Energy Department, private universities, and research labs that had begun in March 1998 and had been going on for nearly two years.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/warnings (681 words)

	NFL.com - NFL FANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		(b) If ineligible receiver is illegally downfield: loss of five yards.
		(c) If touched or caught (intentionally or accidentally) by ineligible receiver beyond the line: loss of 5 yards.
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	www.nfl.com /fans/rules/forwardpass (459 words)

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