FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 April 1923, Page 4

FOOTBALL.

RULES CONFIRMED. CHRISTCHURCH; March 31. ■ : At the annual conference of the New Zealand Referees' Association the following rulings were confirmed:— *-. (1) A scrum being-fora breach, and the presumption being that the ball must be fairly put in. it was immaterial who put it in. (2) If a player with one foot over tlie goal line and the other in play picked up the ball and forced it the i referee should give carry over, except where the ball is taken in the air, when a force fc allowable. (3) That Rule 19, relating to breaches within ten yards of the touch lines, refers only to such breaches be<tween the twenty-five lines. - (4) Where a marker is knocked out and has to, leave the field the referee can give the kick to anyone else or order a scrum. . (5) That'-where a player kicks the ball into touch. from outside his twenty-five after the call of time play must cease. .-"'■".- ---(G) That a phicer must be behind the ball, except when lying on the ground to place the ball. .-.- (7) That in. the.-case "'of. a knock^bn into touch in goal froni the field" Qf play a. drop-out be given. (8) That where the full-back fell on the ball and did wot attempt to get /clear iii front of the attacking players the referee should "award a try if he is of opinion that a try would have been scored.