FOOTBALL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6482, 27 September 1892, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

THE NEW RUGBY "RULES

By the 'Frisco mail (says " Action," in the Auckland Star) I received a copy of the revised rules which will come into force in New Zealand next season. English papers commend the International Board for their task of revising and improving the laws of the game with discretion and success. From a hurried glance through the new rules, I find that field umpires have been abolished in favor of the touch judges and referee. An important law has been made to deal with wing forwards, players loafing for a chance, and the off-side half-backs. It says : "A free kick shall be awarded when any player not in a scrummage wilfully obstructs his opponents' half-backs by standing on his opponents' side of the ba'l when it is in a scrummage." This is a very necessary and much-needed rule, and one that the public will be glad to see put in practice, for the manner in which wing forwards are allowed to loaf behind their opponents' scrum is having anything but a beneficial result on Rugby football. The majority of the spectators are evidently of opinion now, that when a wing forward or half-back gets in front of the ball behind his opponents' scrum, waiting for it to be heeled out, that such player is off-side, for how often do we hear the cry of "off-side" raised from the spectators when such players indulge in tho practice ? Rule 14 does away with the mauls in goal. It says : "If the ball, when over the goal line, and in possession of a player, be fairly held by an opposing player before it is grounded, it shall be scrummaged five yards from the goal line, opposite the spot where the ball was held." The mode of scoring has not been altered.

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