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	Offside law (football)
		A player is in an offside position if he is in his opponents' half and has fewer than two opposing players (including the goalkeeper) between himself and the opposition goal line (these players would be playing him onside), unless the ball is also between him and the goal line.
		The offside rule means a player who is offside is committing a foul, unless he is deemed to be not interfering with play (eg, on the other side of the pitch and consequently unable to receive a pass).
		The offside rule is often cited in the UK as something women are unable to understand.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/of/Offside_(soccer).html (639 words)

	Fort Worth Rugby Club - Archive
		Rugby union is played on a rectangular field, divided into equal halves with goalposts at each end (the try-line) comprising two uprights and a crossbar.
		A player is offside if he is in front of a teammate who has the ball or who last played it and is interfering with play.
		Offside is penalized by a penalty kick where the offence takes place, or, in free play, there is the option of a scrum.
	www.fortworthrugby.com /archive.asp?id=290 (1013 words)

	Rugby union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rugby union is a team sport that was (according to legend) developed from the rules used to play football at Rugby School in England.
		Rugby football has a claim to the world's first "football club", formed at Guy's Hospital Football Club, London in 1843, by Rugby School old boys.
		For the next few years rugby clubs continued to agree rules before the start of each game as they had always done, but on January 26, 1871, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) formed, leading to the standardisation of the rules for all clubs in England that played a variety of the Rugby School laws.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Rugby_union (3230 words)

	North Penn Rugby Football Club :: High School Rugby Website
		Finally, rugby is considered to be a gender equity sport as approximately 35% of all players in the United States are female.
		Rugby balls are made in varying sizes (3, 4 or 5) for both youth and adult players.
		In the lineouts previously discussed, the offside lines are 10 meters back on either side from a line drawn across the field from where the ball is thrown in.
	highschoolrugby.org /article_specguide.asp (2396 words)

	Sports Rules - Rugby Union
		However, that player is not offside unless the offside player plays the ball, obstructs an opponent, or approaches and remains within 10 metres (11 yards) of an opponent waiting to play the ball or where the ball lands.
		Offside at a scrummage is penalized by a penalty kick from the point of the offence.
		If an offside player is involved in the line-out, a penalty kick is given to the opposing team, to be taken 15 metres (16 yards) from the touchline, along the line-of touch.
	sportsrules.50g.com /_framed/50g/sportsrules/rugbyunion.htm (5291 words)

	Rules of Rugby
		Finally, rugby is considered to be a gender equity sport as approximately 25% of all players in the United States are female.
		Rugby does not have downs, and a team is not required to reach 10 yards and stop.
		Simply being offside is not a penalty, but attempting to participate in the game from an offside position is. In the lineouts previously discussed, the offside lines are 10 meters back on either side from a line drawn across the field from where the ball is thrown in.
	www.ombac.org /ombac_rugby/rulesofrugby.htm (2184 words)

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		In fact, if you are offside and within 10 meters of an opponent fielding a kick you MUST RETREAT beyond that 10 and only go ahead in your pursuit of the ball after she has moved 5 meters, passed, kicked, or dropped the ball.
		In rugby, a referee does not have to call a penalty if she feels that no advantage was gained by the offending team or that the other team was able to capitalize on it.
		Rugby is a lot of things to a lot of people.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~radrugby/rookie_primer.html (4316 words)

	Rugby Union Article, RugbyUnion Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rugby union is team sport that was developed from the rules used to play football at Rugby School in England.
		Rugby Union is the national sport of Wales, New Zealand and Pacific countries such as Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa.
		For the next few years rugby clubs continued to agree rules before the start of each game as they had always done, but on January 26, 1871, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) formed, leading to the standardisationof the rules for all clubs in England that played a variety of the Rugby School laws.
	www.anoca.org /ball/football/rugby_union.html (2181 words)

	Touch Rugby Rules : Offside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A player in the attacking team is offside when that player is forward of the player who has possession or who last had possession.
		In general play, offside attacking players who interfere with play should be penalised.
		Attacking players who are offside are non-effective and should return to an onside position as soon as possible.
	www.touch-scotland.com /rules/offside (223 words)

	Sports Rules - Rugby League
		A game of Rugby League last for 80 minutes, with a five minute interval between the two 40 minute halves.
		If the referee deems the offside to be accidental, a scrummage is given, with possession going to the non-offending team.
		This happens if a player is deemed to have deliberately knocked the ball or passed it forward, by hitting the ball with a hand or an arm and it goes on the ground.
	sportsrules.50g.com /rugbyleague.htm (4158 words)

	Lamar University Rugby - About Rugby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rugby was just not born, it is a game that developed through the centuries, its origins can be traced back nearly two thousand years when China and Japan were playing an early form of the sport.
		The clubs then found that their playing strength was continually being depleted by injuries through hacking and tripping, so much so, that these ‘arts’ were banned as well as that of bringing down a player with a lusty kick to the body which until then was an accepted form of tackling.
		Leaving Rugby School he went up to Oxford University where he obtained a cricketing ‘blue’ and then entered the church serving at one stage as the minister of St Clement Danes, of which the old nursery rhyme about oranges and lemons still survives.
	www.lurugby.com /rugby.html (8417 words)

	spiked-life \| Column \| Offside, 27 November
		The very British overreaction to England's rugby World Cup victory is reminiscent of the national euphoria that has episodically attached itself to the English football team in recent years.
		We were all rugby fans for a day because we wanted to savour the reflected glory of a rare English sporting triumph.
		Fewer secondary-school children are playing rugby due to the lack of facilities and the fear of sport injury litigation.
	www.spiked-online.com /articles/00000006DFE5.htm (769 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Jim Telfer Retires - Rugby chiefs' flood plea ruled offside
		CITY leaders are on a collision course with Scotland’s rugby chiefs after refusing to back down in a row which threatens to delay a flagship flood prevention scheme by at least two years.
		The Scottish Rugby Union has been promised further consultation with the council despite yesterday’s decision to press on with developing plans to use the back pitches at Murrayfield as a flood plain.
		Rugby’s governing body has instead backed a plan that would see higher concrete walls being built beside residential homes.
	sport.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?id=219932003&tid=676 (710 words)

	Whitman Rugby Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In fact, if you are offside and within 10 meters of an opponent fielding a kick you MUST RETREAT beyond that 10 and only go ahead in your pursuit of the ball after you have moved that 10 meters.
		You may be feeling a little saturated with rugby facts and figures at this point and as you might suspect, there is much, much more.
		In rugby, a referee does not have to call a penalty if he feels that no advantage was gained by the offending team or that the other team was able to capitalize on it.
	www.whitman.edu /rugby/rugby.html (4273 words)

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		At Rugby School and elsewhere a different form of play was used, in which handling the ball dominated the kicking element.
		Rugby men felt it was manly and courageous to tackle an opponent by kicking him on the shin; the dribbling men did not, and voted it out.
		Offside was limited to the opponent's half of the pitch in 1907, and throw-ins were exempted in 1921.
	www.rsssf.com /rssbest/modernorig.html (4346 words)

	spiked-life \| Column \| Offside, 20 November
		Knowledge of the offside rule in football is a badge of authenticity for the nouveau soccer fan.
		The problem with English rugby is that it suffers from a stuffy public school image at a time when it is chronically unfashionable to be a toff.
		Furthermore 33 per cent concurred that 'rugby is an expression of sublimated homosexuality', while one in five agreed that 'rugby is a game for ugly fat lads who are crap at other sports'.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DFD6.htm (984 words)

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		Here are some rules that should make it easier to understand and play rugby effectively, and to understand why the referee blows the whistle when he does.
		The laws of rugby change every year - sometimes a few times a year - so it is essential that you as a player keep up to date with what is allowed and what is not.
		Just because a player is in an offside position - does not necessary mean that he is offside - provided that he does not interfere with play and retires to an onside position.
	rugby.truman.edu /men/RulesForPlayers.htm (1598 words)

	Offside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rule that is used in a number of field sports to regulate aspects of player positioning.
		Rugby union and rugby league: see Offside (rugby).
		American football and Canadian football: see American football penalties against the defense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Offside (176 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Rugby League \| Laws & Equipment \| Offside in open play
		Offside is quite a complicated rule of rugby league, so make sure you pay attention and listen to what the referee is saying.
		If one of your team-mates is about to kick a high up-and-under or a grubber kick to run onto, make sure you are level or just behind them when they kick.
		The rules say that to be onside at a kick, an active player not in possession of the ball, must be behind the player who kicks the ball.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/rugby_league/rules_and_equipment/4216334.stm (358 words)

	Shewolves.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She was merely trying to make a point on the rampant sexism and provincial attitudes of that particular institution..
		In fact, if you are offside and within 10 meters of an opponent fielding a kick you MUST retreat beyond that 10 meters and only go ahead in your pursuit of the ball after she has moved 5 meters, passed, kicked, or dropped the ball.
		If there is one thing that sets rugby apart from all other sports you've ever seen or played, it's that after a match you lay differences aside and have a party.
	www.shewolves.org /MainRugby.htm (1292 words)

	Rugby Laws Explained for the Dippy \|\| TheLeicesterTigers.co.uk - Unofficial Leicester Tigers News and Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		You may feel a defender is offside but a spectator level with the scrum would not.
		As soon as the ball leaves the scrum it is in open play and offside no longer applies until a ruck or maul is formed.
		As soon as you fail to retreat or worse move towards the ball you are offside.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s103/st20058.php (1415 words)

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		Rugby is a popular game played by men and women of every race and creed, from under age five to well over fifty, in over 100 countries of the world.
		There are two types of rugby: Rugby Union, the amateur game, and Rugby League, a primarily professional game played mainly in northern England, Australia, New Zealand, and France.
		Rugby has many similarities to American football - - except it is much more exciting and played without pads or helmets.
	net.saipan.com /personal/banes (1520 words)

	Basic Rugby Page 2
		Kicking forward is permissible (and desirable), but unless you are behind the kicker, he or someone behind he passes you, or you ARE the kicker, you cannot just go for the ball.
		In fact, if you are offside and within 10 meters of an opponent fielding a kick you MUST RETREAT beyond that 10 and only go ahead in your pursuit of the ball after he has moved 5 meters, passed, kicked, or dropped the ball.
		Rugby is a continuous, flowing game with natural ebbs and surges, but no real time-outs except for injury.
	www.marshall.edu /marshallrugby/Page2.htm (4339 words)

	Offside History
		For any offside offence, the referee awards an indirect free kick to the opposing team to be taken from the place where the infringement occurred.
		If a flag signal for offside is given and is not seen immediately by the referee; the assistant referee must keep signalling until it has been recognised or the ball is clearly in control of the defending team (the electronic beep signal is used to alert the referee to the flag signal).
		In the definition of offside position, “nearer to his opponents’ goal line means that any part of his head, body or feet is nearer to his opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second last opponent.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /corshamref/sub/offhist.htm (5912 words)

	BBC Sport Academy
		For scrum-halves, the offside line is the line of the ball fed into the scrum.
		So that means they can't go past that line until the ball has been put into the scrum by the opposing number nine.
		For all the other players, the offside line is an imaginary line drawn through the foot of the last player in the scrum.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/bsp/hi/rugby_union/rules/offside/html/scrum.stm (131 words)

	Keo.co.za (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In a poll of 1000 rugby fans, 48% reckoned the Boks defence was "consistently offside", 25% believe it to be "on the edge, but mostly legal" whilst 27% made their mark next to "passionate, committed and entirely legal".
		There is a putative offside line for the team in possession, but the players in front of the ball are only offside if they get involved in play (field a kick, prevent tacklers getting to the player in possession and so on).
		Whether rush defence constitutes an offside situation or not is not a question of principle or interpretation, but of fact, which is to be judged by the ref and his fellow officials in each situation.
	blog.keo.co.za /archives/2005/08/boks_offside_bl.php (4333 words)

	Robbo Was Never Offside But Backy Is! \|\| BathRugbyEre.co.uk - Unofficial Bath News and Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As Bath fans we are supposed to know all about the dark art of successfully playing offside with the arch-villain Andy Robinson allegedly playing so far offside he spent most of a game lining up with his opponents, however I rarely spotted Robbo playing in a position which I could swear to being offside.
		Surely the whole point of offside in both rugby and football is to give teams an even chance to play fairly and win (or at least not lose) on merit.
		By making the offside law in rugby so difficult to judge we once again introduce a lottery situation whereby "cheating" players are not spotted, "innocent" players are wrongly penalised and the game as a whole is the loser.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s105/st5838.htm (529 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh - Rugby club plan ruled offside for second time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A revised plan by Edinburgh Academicals and Festival Inns to extend the Raeburn House Hotel and add a new clubhouse and sports facilities was rejected by councillors yesterday.
		But the rugby club insists the revamp was needed to tackle a funding crisis that it fears could spell an end to sports being played on the ground, the site of the first rugby international.
		Stockbridge councillor Michael Dixon added: "There was overwhelming opposition to this scheme and it’s good that the committee has listened to the views of the community.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=724262004 (343 words)

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		The major difference is what happens after a (two handed) touch of the ball carrier (the fundamental difference between Rugby League and Union).
		We want the ball carrier to be encouraged to avoid the touch and the support runners to do things (like a 7’s swivel) other than wait for the ball to be played between the legs (bum sniffing).
		Live ball has no offside or offense/defense restrictions (including both feet behind), just like any free ball in rugby, first to play it gets it.
	www.gurkharugby.com /touch.htm (834 words)

	York College Women
		you and 15 of them, and you're ready for a rollicking good rugby match.
		You won't be in trouble if you're 50 meters away tying your shoe, but if you influence the play in any way from an offside position this is BAD, BAD, BAD - Penalty City, kids - DON'T DO The concept of offside explains a lot of this seemingly convoluted game.
		It is the basic set formation of rugby and occurs after various minor
	groups.ycp.edu /rugby/learngame.html (4305 words)

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