1950-51

522
RUGBY
in the ensuing scrummage of being allowed to choose the side of
the scrummage on which the ball shall be put in.
A player having chosen the side on wh�ch he wishes to put the
ball in cannot alter his decision.
Law
15
(b). The Referee must insist on the scrummage being
formed io yards from the touch line, but he has no power under
this section to order a ten-yard scrummage between a 25 yards
line and a goal line.
Law
15
(e). The Referee has no authority to permit delay be-
cause a player has not succeeded in getting his head down in the
scrummage.
Law 15 (f ). Putting the ball in the scrummage. Referees must
insist that
(a) The player putting in the ball stcinds .not less than one
yard from the scrummage.
(b) The ball is propelled by both hands from below the knee.
(c) The ball must pitch on the ground beyond one foot of the
nearest player of each front row.
Law
15
(g), (h) and (i). In these sections of
the
Law by "lines of
feet" is meant the mean average line of the feet of the plavers
forming a front row.
Law
15
(h). Referees should study the following diagram and
note when the ball is and is not fairly in the scrummage.
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Law zs (i). The alteration in this section of the law permits the
first player of each front row on the side on which the ball is being
put in to raise his outside foot as soon as the ball has left the hands of
the player putting it in and to follow the bail into the scrummage
but he must not touch the ball until it has been played by the far
foot of the second player of either front row or the foot of a player
beyond.
Law
15
(Z). A forward who returns the ball into the scrummage
after it has been heeled out should be penalised for " wilfully
returning."
It is illegal for an outside player in a scrummage to move outwards
when the ball has been obtained by his team and is emerging from
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