Football.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10525, 25 April 1907, Page 1

Football.

SOIMIB POOTS W RULtBNIG.

Football mthiusiaste will remember that in, August last year thet Welling;toii representative team took oonsidr eira;ble eiceptioni lo the referee's (!Ri«v. €1 G. Harper) rulings im tihlree: points. We Harper ruled— {l) That a man muert not. put hie knee or knees on the ground in aj stipam, ibeeiause ii on his knees he must ble considered ti> be on* <^i© giround. This disputed. (2) Ifcat a main, -wEo hiaippened to be. in front of a tiajcki fcicking the 'ball, might run toWardk an opponeinlfc waiting' for th« •ball, so long <ate he did not 4 go ■within/ teini yards of such opponent. This was disputed, thle Wellington mem niainitAinSng <tihaib euoh; a mftn was off-fiid©, howenelr' far he ntay be trom thie opponent unless ho remained quite still or rafai^.'('3)-Mlr;Har-pea- ■blaimed the right, after warning to pepalils© a side witib a free kick if memlbjers shouted "off-side" at opponents who wiere not off-side. This was o'bejjoited' to.

•Mr Harper suibniitted thie point* to *he Now Zealand Rieferee^ AWociation, amd that foody didl not deal with th«m, Wut sent theim on to iKhe Cbnferencei if©denifely foield in. Duniedinl. Mr Harper, wjltih wtomi all the local referees agreed, was upWld am the firtet. Wo point*, buit on the tlhird a severef penally was ordered, namely, "ordering; off the igirbund^.., • - • •r" '