SCRUMMAGE RULES
Rugby referees in-Canterbury, who have been alone in ruling that the opposing forwards in a scrummage may begin to push as soon as the halfback is ready to put the ball in the scrum, have been vindicated in their ruling by the English Rugby Football Union. The New Zealand union, after first, over-riding the Canterbury interpretation of the word “available” ; n the scrummage laws, decided to seek a direction from the headquarters of the game. A reply has been received that +he practice in England is that the ball is “available” when the scrum half shapes up to put the ball in the scrum.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 10
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106SCRUMMAGE RULES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 10
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