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False. This is not illegal touching.
I'm guessing NFHS rule is similar to NCAA in the definition of a muff: To muff the ball is to touch the ball in an unsuccessful attempt to catch or recover it.
Why isn't it illegal touching? thanks! (rules states if he bats, muffs, or catches a pass). I guess hitting him in the back isn't considered a muff.
Sorry to involve NCAA in this, but the reason it is not a foul in NCAA has nothing to do with muff versus fumble, or anything like it. The Illegal Touching rule (touching by an originally ineligible player) directly states that the ball must be intentionally touched to be a foul.
Rule 2, rule 2, rule 2. All three of those words are defined in rule 2