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APPENDIX.
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46. If a player shall kick, pass, or carry the ball back across his goal-line and it there be made dead, the opposite side may claim that the ball shall be brought back and a scrummage formed at the spot whence it was kicked, passed, or carried back. Under any other circumstances a player may touch the ball down in his own goal.


Plan of the Field.
AA. AA. Goal Lines. PP. PP. Goal Posts.
TT. TT. Touch Lines. QQ.QQ. Touch In Goal.
The Touch Lines and Goal Lines should be cut out of the turf.
The field of play must not exceed 110 yards in length, nor 75 yards in breadth, and should be as near those dimensions as practicable.


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