Post by Coach Campbell on Oct 15, 2002 10:32:01 GMT
A new principle of possession of the ball, a tremendously important principle that, more than anything else, differentiates rugby from American football. When in 1880, a new rule is formed stating at least eleven players on a side and a scrimmage line established; the latter change eliminated the rugby scrum and aligned the teams on either side of the ball.
The most important incident in the evolution of the game in the late eighteen seventies was the introduction of the modern scrimmage in the place of the rugby scrum. The tacticians of the perod perceived the vast improvement which could be obtained if a method were established of putting the ball in play that it would give to one side its undisturbed possession and thereby permit strategic and tactical possession and thereby permit strategic and tactical preparation to advance it (game planning). Coach CAmpbell
The most important incident in the evolution of the game in the late eighteen seventies was the introduction of the modern scrimmage in the place of the rugby scrum. The tacticians of the perod perceived the vast improvement which could be obtained if a method were established of putting the ball in play that it would give to one side its undisturbed possession and thereby permit strategic and tactical possession and thereby permit strategic and tactical preparation to advance it (game planning). Coach CAmpbell