FOOTBALL.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 18. The delegates of the New Zealand Rugby Union met to-day for the purpose of considering the proposed amendments to rules with the object of making the game more attractive. Alterations* were carried to the following effect:—-Law 1., that the game be played in 4 spells of twenty minutes each, with an interval after the second spell. The notes referring to a tackle are altered to'provide that if a player carrying the ball be brought to the ground and the ball touches the ground he may, nevertheless, get up with it and continue his run or pass it, provided it be done immediately. In every ease when the referee alters a scrummage he shall put the ball into the said scrummage. The offside rule relating; to scrummages is amended to read that "a player is placed off-side if he crosses an imaginary line drawn the back of the scrummage on his own side while the ball is in scrummage." Law 10, relating to free kicks was altered to read that "in all cases of free kicks or kick at goal the opposite side shall not charge such kicks."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 5
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198FOOTBALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 5
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