Too Much Kicking
Excessive kicking for touch by England's Rugby halfbacks and inside backs this season aroused a lively correspondence in "The Times.” One reader with a name well known in Irish Rugby circles. Mr R. A. Hewitt, put forward the best suggestion yet for curbing defensive kicking. He would like the rules to be amended thus: "When a kick to touch is made by a player other than the full-back, the touch should be awarded not where the ball crossed the line, but level with where the kick was made,”
It is worth noting that something along these lines has been in . operation in Australia for some years. The difference is that if any player kicks when he is not in his own twenty-five, the ball goes out on the full, a scrum is ordered from where the kick is made.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29518, 20 May 1961, Page 5
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142Too Much Kicking Press, Volume C, Issue 29518, 20 May 1961, Page 5
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