IMPOETANT TO FOOTBALLERS.
— I The annual eeneral March meeting of the English Rugby Football Union irai held on March 29. The following proposition!, which arc of interest to our footballers were carried. To add to law No 23 : — " In case any player plays the ball when he is off-side, the captain of the opposite side may claim that the ball be taken back and put down at the place where it was last played before the offside play occurred." That law No 25 read thus : — " When a player has the ball, none of his opponents who at the time are 'off-side' may commence or attempt to run, tackle, or otherwise interrupt such player until he has run fire yards or taken his kick. But if any player when 'off-side' tackles, or in any way interferes with an opponent has run five yards .or taken his kick, the captain of the opposite side may claim a free kick for the player so interfered with ; such free kick shall be either a punt or a drop-kick from the spot where the interference took place, and shall be taken in accordance with the conditions of law 44; such free kick shall not count a goal." Thlttolaw No (jOtjhe word „" only" *>c added after the words " kick iT*oaK' V
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 1, 17 June 1882, Page 3
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215IMPOETANT TO FOOTBALLERS. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 1, 17 June 1882, Page 3
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