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RUGBY
Law io (r 5) as to advantage should be applied in the event of any
of the foregoing not being complied with.
LAW z5.
—Place Kick at Goal after a Try.
—After a try has
been scored the scoring team shall have the right to take a place
kick at goal on a line parallel to the touch lines through the place
where the try was obtained but need not take the kick. The kicker
may place the ball.
(a) All
the kicker's team must be behind the ball when
kicked.
(b)
The opposing team must be behind the goal line until
the kicker begins his run or offers to kick when they may
charge or jump with a view to touching the ball.
(c) The kick must be taken without undue delay.
Penalty
:—
(i) For an infringement by the kicker's team—the kick shall
be disallowed.
(ii) For an infringement by the opposing team—the charge
shall be disallowed; or if the kick had been unsuccessfully
taken the kicker shall have the option of another kick
under the original conditions without the charge.
Neither the kicker nor any player placing the ball for him shall
wilfully do anything which may lead the opposing team to charge
prematurely ; in the event of either doing so the charge shall not be
disallowed..
LAW a6.—Try.
A
try is obtained by the act of an attacking player first grounding
the ball in his opponents' in-goal.
A touch-down is obtained by the act of a defending player first ground-
ing the ball in his own in-goal.
A try is scored in the following cases :—
(a)
If a player passes, knocks or kicks the ball into his oven
in-goal, and an opponent first grounds it.
(b)
If a team in a scrummage pushes the other team over
the latter's goal line and first grounds the ball in in-
goal. If the defending team grounds it, a touch-down
shall be awarded.
(c) If a player grounds the ball in his opponents' in-goal
and picks it up again, a try shall be awarded where it
was first grounded.
(d) If the momentum of a player when held in possession of
the ball carries him ' into his opponents' in-goal and
he first there grounds the ball, even though it has
touched the ground in the field-of-play.
The Referee shall award a try if, in his opinion, one would un-
doubtedly have been obtained but for the unfair play or unlawful
interference of the defending team. Such try shall be awarded
between the posts. (See also penalty under 34. (a) and (b) ).
A try may be scored by a player who is in touch or in touch-in-
goal provided he is not carrying the ball.