1957-58

RUGBY 6'79
the ball from touching the ground, or (c) prevents the far foot of
the middle player from first touching the ball."
LAW
15
(B) (9) and (11).
The Referee should ensure that all players in the front row keep
their feet sufficiently far back. The first three feet of either front
row must be placed sufficiently far back to allow the tunnel to be
left clear. The fourth foot may be placed up to but not on the
middle line, but that foot must not be placed across the third foot
(i.e., nearer the mouth of the tunnel) until the ball has left the
hands of the player putting it in.
LAW
15(B)
(10).
When the ball has come out of the scrummage in any of the ways
indicated by the arrows in the following diagrams it must be put in
again.
If the ball passes between the feet of the outside players of either
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front row on the side on which it has been put in, then no matter
what subsequently happens to it, it must be put in again.
The Referee has no discretion to order the ball to be put in again
unless it has come out as indicated in the diagrams.
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