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kicking at the ball, and often encounter each others' shins. When a body is running with the ball, any of the opposite side may either maul him and pull him over, or get the ball from him, or else "hack" him over, but he may neither hold and hack him simultaneously, nor may he hold him after the ball is gone. When players are off their sides, they are made on their sides again — First, if the ball strike any body of the opposite side; Secondly, in the case of Rule 8.
Generally, three or four of the swiftest runners, and most expert at dropping, keep some distance behind the rest, and are called back players; some, too, who are clever at "dodging," play half-back, i.e., midway between the back players and the rest.
