LEAGUE RUGBY

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 7

LEAGUE RUGBY

NEW SCRLTM RULES.

The Northern Rugby Union is intent on making the game as attractive as possible, ..and, the council is seriously tackling the scrtimmage problem" (says a Manchester journal). Despite the *fact that it isgued <V new instruction'respecting the putting of the ball in the pack, there has not" been that improvement one naturally hoped for. The council has further considered the question, and it has now issued a new instruction to clubs and the referees' societies, to be put, inta operation immediately. A p.Vep.eviy:fgrmed Scrummage in tho future must be so for.me.d as to provide a clear opening or tunnel in which to insert tbs ball A spi'iim in which all forwards are in line is clearly against the. spirit of the lav.-. The ball must l;e rolled into the scrummage under hand, from knee high, and must pass the outside front-row players at least before the ball is considered to be fairly in the., scrum, and must come out of the scrummage'behind at least the front row of forwards. On no account will be the- ball be rilled as in play if it conies out of the scrum by way of any other passage. A penalty kick is to be given against the side that prevents tlie ball from going fairly into the scrum.

If the "ball—through no breach of cither side—comes out of the scrummage by any means other 'th.an thjs, it is to be put again, into the scrum, i.e.," the, ball must not cppie out of the scrum by way of the saiae passage as tiy. 'winch it was put "in.

The ball when rolled into the scrum mutt touch the ground!, prior to reaching such scrum. All players are to ha.v;e their feet on thp Rround until the ballrestches the scrum. ' ' ""■