SEVEN-A-SIDE TOURNEY.

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1917, Page 3

SEVEN-A-SIDE TOURNEY.

"By Offside." On Labour Day the football admirers are promised a g-o.od clays sport in a seven-aside tourney, and if the; weather proves fine, they will witness' some of the fastest rugby seen in the Coast for some considerable ..-time. - The nominations, tend ~u> be all . "that is desired and with Senipr, Junior.; and School Senior and Junior compfetitons the whole day .will be occttpi-: ed in running off the respective fiixt'ures. The Senior" teams are competing for the Grey, Trotting Club's Shield, the Junior competition have-a shield donated by Mr. F. Ives tocompensate their effoints. ' and tifce School teams will receive medals for each boy in the winning teams. A copy of the rules for seven-a-side ,compei*tion are reprinted in this column. SEVEN-A-SIDE BY LAWS. 1. That the competition shall be open to all abated club's, each of whom may nominate any number -of teams, consisting of seven 'players' who are bonarfide members of the clud nominating them. 2. The competition shall be held in two grades. The i'enior competition shall be open to Senior members of affiliated clubs. A junior competition open only to borfa-fide junior members. • 3. Nominations for each team to be 7s for Senior and 3s 6d for Junior teams. 4. The whole of the net proceeds to gp to the union. 5. Teams entering outside alO mile iiadius and having to compete on • mdre than one day, shall be entitled to reasonable travelling expenses. 6. The competition shall be subject to tfre following rules :— _ (a) The oi'der of play in each round to be decided by lot, all byes to be drawn in the first round, and all losing team's 'to drop out of cothr petition at once. (b) Gamfes shall be played in two spells of seven minutes each, and one minute for interval. (c) A time will be fixed for each game to begin and . any team failing to take the- field whjen called oh to do so sb.all forfeit the match and take no further pjirt in the 't'oi^rnanient. (d) Each feeani. before engaging in its first match must hand to the referee or any oih'ep official appointed, a list of its players, .failure to comply with this rule will entail a foi'leit. (c) No player shall under any consideration play for more than one team. . ...... (f ) In the event of scores being even at the end of second spell the irame must be continued till one team scores or secures a force down except m case of a final the scores only to count. -A. farce down not to ittcl.ude a dead ball unless made so by the defending side. .(g) . An interval of at least ten minutes to be provided between semifinal and final. (h) With the above exceptions the .tournament will be played under Rugby rules and according to West Coast Rugby Union By-laws. Clubs must forward list of teams and- names of players of each team, to the union. at least six,. days before the. tournament. In the ey^rit pf vacancies occurring from this^sub--stitutes must be drawn ,from players not already riorainated in anr -oJher team. A pl a yer nominated in the Juniors may. however, fill a vacancy in a Senior team. , .. .Each cliib competing shan : 'be represented at the drawing of t|ie rounds by some person of whose appointment the union has been notified. Any team failing to fulfil its fixmre shall be liable "to a finV oF los for each forfeit.