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Personal foul - this is when illegal body contact occurs between opposing players. Common examples are charging, blocking, holding, illegal guarding, pushing, illegal screening, hand checking, and illegal hand use.

 


Personal Foul
Personal fouls are fouls committed by a player, and after five of these (or six in the NBA) the player has to sit out the game. A replacement is allowed to enter the game.
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Personal Foul - Contact which occurs with an opponent after the ball has become live that may result in injury (including a push, hold, trip, hack, elbow, restrain or charge).
Punching - Personal foul where one player punches another.

Personal foul - contact between basketball players that may result in injury or provide one team with an unfair advantage; players may not push, hold, trip, hack, elbow, restrain or charge into an opponent.

Personal Foul: A foul committed by one player against another. After 5 personal fouls, the player is disqualified for the rest of the game.

Personal Foul:
A violation committed by one player against another player. Following a player's fifth personal foul (sixth in the NBA), he or she is disqualified for the rest of the game.
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Personal foul: Player foul which involves illegal contact with an opposing player, whether the ball is live or dead.

Personal Fouls
A foul is an action that involves contact with an opposing player, whether the ball is alive, in play, or dead.

Personal foul
Called against a player who makes contact with another player at any time, whether the ball is alive or dead.

Personal foul: Penalty against a player who establish contact that may result in injury or provide one team with an unfair advantage; players may not push, hold, trip, hack, elbow, restrain or charge into an opponent; ...

Personal Foul: This is when one player holds, bumps into trips or in some other manner makes illegal contact with another player.
Pick: See Screen.

Personal foul - contact between players that may result in injury or provide one team with an unfair advantage; players may not push, hold, trip, hack, elbow, restrain or charge into an opponent; these are also counted as team fouls.

1. Personal Foul
A personal foul is a foul by a player on an opponent involving contact with his/her person or chair.

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B. Personal Foul
Section I-Types
a. A player shall not hold, push, charge into or impede the progress of an opponent by extending an arm, leg or knee or by bending the body into a position that is not normal.

Personal Foul
A foul that involves physical contact between opposing players. Among the most common personal fouls are blocking, charging, elbowing, hacking, and holding.

PERSONAL FOULS. While the position, "pf" is infact power forward, "pf" when found on the score card and the box score stands for how many personal fouls the player committed.

Personal Foul -- Illegal contact, including holding, pushing, elbowing, charging, and hacking, between players that may cause an injury or give one team an unfair advantage over the other. See also “Charging,' and “Blocking' ...

Personal foul
Kermit Washington, subject (along with Rudy Tomjanovich) of John Feinstein's book The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
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Personal fouls are a very important team resource. In a sense, you get 6 per half with no penalty whatsoever, if they were not committed upon a shooter.

There are four personal fouls and two technical fouls and the referee will initially indicate which one it is.
The type of foul will then be signalled.
There are also violation signals for travelling and time restrictions.

Foul out on 5 (personal fouls + non-administrative technical fouls)
Fouls committed while the ball is dead are technical fouls.
NCAA Women
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After the fifth personal foul on a player, the player is disqualified from the game
The offended player is awarded: ...

Hand Check - A personal foul where a defender intermittently or continuously uses one or both hands on an opposing player, usually the ball handler.
Hashmark - See the basketball glossary term "midcourt area marker".

foul: actions by players which break the rules but are not floor violations; penalized by a change in possession or free-throw opportunities; see personal foul or technical foul.

Personal foul: A penalty assessed on a player who commits an illegal action.
Pick: See screen.

Most fouls are personal fouls called on the defense for illegally contacting an opposing player. Examples of personal fouls are pushing, tripping, holding, blocking, or contacting an offensive player with the body.

1944 A big year for rule changes: unlimited substitutions, personal fouls leading to disqualification increase from four to five and the extension of 1937's goal-tending rule bans defensive contact with the ball on its downward flight towards the ...

Flagrant personal foul (2 FT and ball) - involves violent contact and ejection. Flagrant technical foul (2 FT and ball) - persistent noncontact unsportsmanlike conduct - ejection.

Personal fouls are called when too much contact is made. A foul is called when a player gains an unfair advantage by making contact with the opposing player. In the NBA, players are eliminated after committing six fouls.

Foul trouble -When a player is in foul trouble, he has close to 6 personal FOULS.
Free-throw -A Basketball Phrase used often instead of FOUL SHOT. See FOUL SHOT.
Free-throw line -The line where FOUL SHOTS are taken from.

Strong continuous offensive play underneath the basket and the resulting personal fouls committed by the defense will quickly change the complexion of any game.

For this reason, direct your attack at the star to make the player play defense or give up an easy shot. On defense the star may commit more personal fouls than normal, possibly fouling out of the game.

Bonus Free Throw or Bonus Situation: after the personal fouls tally is over the limit, a freebie is given to the opposing team.
Bounce Pass: one bounce is all it takes to get to your teammate.

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