RUGBY RULES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 44, 21 February 1936, Page 4

RUGBY RULES

REPORT ON CONFERENCE DOMINION COMMITTEE TO BU SET UP 2-3-2 SCRUM A CUSTOM, NOT A RULE r P«r Pr»M A«»ociatlo«. ] WELLINGTON, Feb. It. Delegates who represented the New Zealand Rugby Union at the Imperial Conferences, Messrs. IS. IS. Dean and J. Prendcville, submitted a report to the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night. Mr. Dean said the most important point the overseas unions had gained was the agreement of the English Football Union to set up a Dominion Rules Committee to which the English Union would submit any proposed changes in future to the laws of the game. Each Dominion would now have two representatives on the English Uniun Cone mittee and England six, making a committee of twelve. The International Board had agreed to consider the framing of a rule providing for a penalty for a player not in the scrum mage advancing beyond an imaginary line through the centre of the scrummage. The Home Union delegates had considered that such matters as the kickinto touch rule, leaving the ground nt. half-time and the playing of the two-three-two scrum were mure customs than rules, and the unions desiring to follow such customs were at liberty Io •In so. It was not likely that th<» New Zealand remits concerning alterations would be adoj»ted, but if the present, system was adhered to it was possible that field goal points would be reduced to three. The confe once had opposed a referee putting the ball into the scrum, but it was agreed that the rule should be emended to allow the ball being put in at a reasonable pare.