kicking it before it touches the ground.
_Kick-off_ is a place-kick from the centre of the field of play.
_Kick-out_ is a drop-kick, or place-kick, by a player of the side
which has touched the ball down in their own goal, or into whose
touch-in-goal the ball has gone.
_In touch_ means out of bounds.
A _fair_ is putting the ball in play, from touch.
A _foul_ is any violation of a rule.
A _touch-down_ is made when the ball is carried, kicked, or passed
across the goal-line and there held, either in goal or
touch-in-goal.
A _safety_ is made when a player, guarding his goal, receives the
ball from a player of his own side, and touches it down behind his
goal-line, or carries the ball across his own goal-line and touches
it down, or puts the ball into his own touch-in-goal.
A _touch-back_ is made when a player touches the ball to the ground
behind his own goal, the impetus which sent the ball across the
line having been received from an opponent.
A _fair catch_ is a catch made direct from a kick by one of the
opponents, provided the catcher made a mark with his heel at the
spot where he made the catch.
_Interference_ is using the hands or arms in any way to obstruct or
hold a player who has not the ball.
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The _penalty_ for fouls and violation of rules, except otherwise
provided, is a down for the other side; or, if the side making the foul
has not the ball, five yards to the opponents.
The following is the value of each point in the scoring:
Goal obtained by touch-down, 6
Goal from field kick, 5
Touch-down failing goal, 4
Safety by opponents, 2
The rules which bear most directly upon the play are:
The time of a game is an hour and a half, each side playing forty-five
minutes from each goal. There is ten minutes' intermission between the
two halves, and the game is decided by the score of even halves.
The ball is kicked off at the beginning of each half; and whenever a
goal has been obtained, the side which has lost it shall kick off.
A player may throw or pass the ball in any direction except towards
opponents' goal. If the ball be batted or thrown forward, it shall go
down on the spot to opponents.
If a player having the ball be tackled and the ball fairly held, the man
so tackling shall cry "held," the one so tackled must cry "down," and
some player of his side put it down for a scrimmage. If, in three
consecutive fairs and downs, unless the ball cross the goal-line, a team
shall not have advanced the ball five or taken it back twenty yards, it
shall go to the opponents on spot of fourth.
If the ball goes into touch, whether it bounds back or not, a player on
the side which touches it down must bring it to the spot where the line
was crossed, and there either bound the ball in the field of play, or
touch it in with both hands, at right angles to the touch line, and then
run with it, kick it, or throw it back; or throw it out at right angles
to the touch line; or walk out with it at right angles to touch line,
any distance not less than five nor more than fifteen yards, and there
put it down.
A side which has made a touch-down in their opponents' goal _must_ try
at goal.
THE END.
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