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2. Rugby union gameplay - Wikipedia

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   The standard rugby pass is the spiral pass, where the player swings the ball across his body with the tip point upwards and the ball spinning about its axis. [8] [9] This technique propels the ball quickly and accurately. 'Quick hands' is the rapid movement of the ball between players, and at its best involves catching and passing the ball in ...

3. Scrum (rugby) - Wikipedia

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   A rugby league scrum. A rugby league scrum is used to bring the ball back into play in situations where the ball has gone out of play over the touchline or a player has made a mistake, a knock-on or forward pass, except when that mistake has occurred on the last tackle of a set of six tackles. A scrum is also used in the rare event that the ...

4. Jim Greenwood (rugby union) - Wikipedia

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   Jim’s book, Total Rugby, is the only rugby coaching book I’ve ever read. It was way ahead of its time, and has since become a closely studied classic, especially in New Zealand… No man has done more in our time to single-handedly transform the modern game of rugby than Jim Greenwood.

5. Comparison of American football and rugby union - Wikipedia

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   A ball-carrier can also perform a lateral or backward pass as in rugby. By passing the ball forwards to a teammate as long as the passer is behind the line of scrimmage. A down ends, and the ball becomes dead, after any of the following: The player with the ball is tackled. A forward pass goes out of bounds or touches the ground before it is ...

6. Scrum (rugby union) - Wikipedia

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   A scrum in an England versus Scotland international. In rugby union a scrum is a means of restarting play after a minor infringement. It involves up to eight players from each team, known as the pack or forward pack, binding together in three rows and interlocking with the three opposing teams front row.

7. Rugby league gameplay - Wikipedia

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   Most rugby league tries result from back-line movements which involve deft passing between attacking players to move the ball out quickly to the wings or centres. If the ball movement is quicker than the defensive line's ability to shift to cover the outer attackers, resulting spaces towards the side of the field give opportunities for the ...

8. Glossary of rugby union terms - Wikipedia

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   0-9 22 The 22 m line, marking 22 metres (72 ft) from the tryline. 89 An "89" or eight-nine move is a phase following a scrum, in which the number 8 picks up the ball and transfers it to number 9 (scrum-half). 99 The "99" call was a policy of simultaneous retaliation by the 1974 British Lions tour to South Africa, (the 99 comes from the British emergency services telephone number which is 999 ...

9. Snap (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

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   The snap, the set scrum and ruck in today's rugby union, and the play-the-ball in rugby league have common origins in rugby football.As the rules of rugby's scrimmage were written when the game came to North America, they had a significant flaw which was corrected by custom elsewhere, but by the invention of the snap in American football.