LAWS OF RUGBY

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24600, 23 June 1945, Page 8

LAWS OF RUGBY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROPOSED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 22. Reporting to the council of the New Zealand Rugby Union on alterations to the laws of the game which recently have been received by the Inter-Services Rugby Committee in England, Mr S. S. Dean (chairman) said the executive of the union had recommended that consideration of them be deferred and that the Rugby Union (England) be requested to convene a conference to consider the laws as soon as the war situation warranted. Such a conference should be held as soon as possible, as it was Important that the various countries should again take up a roster of international tours so that they knew where they stood. A motion was carried that while the New Zealand Rugby Union had no objection to the Inter-Services’ Rugby Committee conferring with the Rugby Union (England) concerning proposed alterations to the laws of the game set out in the committee’s circular of March 21. 1945, all alterations agreed upon must be submitted to all unions tor. their consideration before they came- into force It was decided to request the Rugby Union (England) to convene a conference to consider alterations to the laws v won as the war situation warranted. Scrum Formation "All we have done is to bring out a chart showing the correct method of forming a 3-4-1 scrum,” said Mr J, H. Parker, when the chart prepared by Messrs Dean, Parker, and L Carmine, on the scrum formation, came before the council. Trouble in recent years, he said, had been caused by forwards breaking from the scrum too soon and endeavouring to chase the opposing backs. The backs held that their trouble was the slowness with which the ball readied them from the scrum. None of the forwards seemed lo know what was "a standard pack." Mr Carmine (Wanganui) said the idea of bringing out 1 lie chart was that the New Zealand players should frfrget all about the 2-3-2 scrum and to let the unions know the type of 3-4-1 formation the executive desired should be played. It was decided to thank the committee which had prepared the chart, and also to send a letter of thanks to Mr J T Burrows for the Interest he had taken in arriving at a better scrum formation.