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TOO MANY RUGBY RULES

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Lessons from Southmatch there will be occasions for

Africans

them using their skill and their dribbling powers, and there are many games, of course, when the proper tactics will be not to feed the backs but for the pack to take control. It is foolish to continue putting the ball out if the backs are proving incapable of making any good use of it.

Some matters concerning the politics of the Rugby game have been freely talked about of late. We had the South African team

I was told at Murrayfield three manager giving plenty of advice just before he went off home, and weaks ago, prior to the start of the if he meant it for his own players Scotland-South Africa game, that equally with those of England, some of the South African players Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, good were. sick to death at the way the The South African formation is and well. But if it was for home captain eribbed, cabined," and-con- being freely adopted in this coun- consumption alone, then it must be fined' their movements, and It was try, and after the success achieved imagined that the success of his stated that he was to be told about by the tourists their plan is certain- team had proved too much for him. It before he got home. And wely worth experimenting with. Im- The game here, as claewhere, is saw that their veteran forward, P. itation is the sincerest form of fat- no doubt in need of some tidying Mostert, was at palne to point outtery. It certainly has its gond up, and one of the troubles it is that the game played in this country points, but there are also objection- groaning under is the multiplicity by the tourists was not the real able features about it. It is an of its rules and regulations. There Southern Afriçan game.

[encouragement to obstruction on ure too many of them, and some of There was one thing, however, the part of the two jutting out them, áre not too clear. A did find myself in agreement with, second row men, who may be award- committee might be appoint-and that was that lying on the balled first prize easily as back! ed representing all the coun-is not penalised as it should be.play curbers. And I cannot tries with instructions to scrap as Players are given far too much la- help feeling that the scrum- many of them as possible, and attitude there by most referces. How half is protected in A Way least half of them. then which never would be missed perate situation near his own line when he is sheltering snugly at the And one of often do we see a player in a des- which is against the spirit of the gome. He cannot be got at, andị rule, throwing himself with great daring Why not simplify it by merely stat on the ball at the feet of rushing ing that the ball must be put in opponents and then curl his body, straight and that no outside foot or arms, and legs round about the ball leg be permitted to prevent its in-waiting for help coming up. The:

That would be plain for ball is not freed at once as it should greys. everybody. Some referees may be be, every obstacle is put in the way working the new rule to the best of of the opposition, and offenders too their ability, as it is worded, but it often get off with it. The check is certain that some are not.

on the rush should be of but a mo- Uniformity as regards the work-mentary nature. ing for that rule, and others, is also very, much needed. We have too many referees in our midst who have different ideas of different things.

would be the new scrum

It was amusing to find Mr. Pienaar blaming our players for the curbing of back play because of this and that failing. His own team could beat us hollow there, and we should hope that no effort is made to follow the lead of the Spring- boks in that direction. They did teach us some lessons which might well be taken to heart by our play ers, but the Rugby they played is not the Rugby we would wish to see, and not the Rugby which has made the game so popular in Scotland.

How kick was one of the lessons which could, with advantage, be learned, but not to make kicking one of the first principles in the play. Everlasting kicking becomes a weariness, Rugby is essentially a running and handling game.

Bent On Business. Physical fitness value was an- other. These Sprinboks came here with one object in view, and that was to play for their country and to do honour-to-their-country on the field of play. They never forgot that, and they got their reward. They did not come to have "a good time," though we all hope they did enjoy themselves.

The playing of football Was

very serious matter with them. I wonder if & British team will ever go on tour who will gain such a record of achievement.

They taught us, too, the value hard work in the acrums, and that all the forwards must be work

But the very formation of their scrum was an incitement to the curbing of back play on the part of the opposition. And the eter- nal kicking of B. L. Osler finished the process in regard to his own side.

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The rule says a player lying on the ground with the ball in his pos- version must immediately get up or away from the ball.

Obstruction a Mean Thing.

side of the back row man, it seem almost as if he wore picking the ball out of the scrum.

One cannot doubt that the forma-1 tion helped the Springboks—they would not have persevered with it) had it been otherwise-but I do not believe that was the main reason for the wonderful success of their forwards, It was their physical strength, combined with speed and general all-round ability.

Forward Specialisation.

It has been suggested that the day is not far distant when we shall

We are, in my opinion, guilty of get back to the time when there that fault in Scotland, but the ob- was no specialising in forward for structing forward is probably not mation,when the first man up, and so much in evidence here as in some the second, and so on, put down his other countries. Deliberate ob-head and formed the scrum. struction

Wel- is mean thing, and come to many it would be were that where it is practised it is helping to to be so, but it is very doubtful if} spoil the game, and spoil people's that will ever come about, and par- faith in it. The obstructor is a ticularly in the near future. menace to the game just as much as the dirty player.

. If he could be wiped out alto- gether it would do Rugby a world of good. There again referees are too easy-going. The obstructionist is doing much to curb good back play, and it is largely owing to him and offside play that the crying need of to-day in all the countries is for stand-off halves and centre three- quarters of a really high class. The reason is that the players in these positions do not get the chance to initiate and develop movements as in days of old.

Not long ago the president of the English Rugby Union said the South Africans had taught us two things-firstly, that every player must have an animate relationship with the ball, and he was sure many of the players in our sides were very much strangers to it, and. secondly, that they had demonstrat- ed that the old-fashioned belief in the acrummage being one integral whole and not three divisions musti be re-established.

The part about the relationship to the ball is clear enough. I dare- say, there are many games in which Back play, by means of running some forwards hardly ever touch) nnd handling, wants all the encour-the ball either with their feet or agement it can get. We do not hands. But what did he infer when; want to go, back to the days when he said that the old-fashioned be- backs came into play just when the lief must be re-established ́about} forwards happened by chance to let the scrum being an integral whole? the ball out of their possession. He could not have meant that each There is nothing finer in Rugby forward should no longer have his than a grand altogether forward own particular place, or row, for the rush or combined dribble, but as the South Africans were very parti- game is played to-day, and I fancy cular about having the same threo as most people want it to be played, in front, the same four next, and the forwards' chief duty is to get the same one behind. His idea! the ball in the scrums and to send must simply have been that the for- it out to the backs. That may be wards in our teams were not work- hereay to many, but it is the popuing together in happy harmony, and lar Rugby, and it is the Rugby that the three divisions, or rows, which has made the game flourish were often to be seen pulling dif- In this country.

ferent ways. It would be very Forwards Not Mere Machines. interesting to think that a man in There is no need for forwards his position was against specialis- becoming mere machines. In every ing.

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