Committee of Games, Uppingham School

“ If whilst the ball is in a bully any one of the players fall down, the bully must be stopped at once, and begin again from the place where the ball is. No kicking is allowed in the bullies. The discretion of sending into goal, or giving any other orders, rests with the Heads of sides, or the deputies appointed by them. If any player kicks the ball behind his own goal and his own side touch it, the opposite side may claim a bully at the place here the ball was kicked, but if the opposite side touch it, it counts as an ordinary bully. ”

“ Any player who catches the ball in the air, or at first bound, may either kick it as best he can, or run with it towards the enemy's goal: provided that he is liable to be stopped by any means except tripping up: and if stopped or held, he must at once kick or put down the ball. A player may not, in any case, run with the ball in or through touch. No player to be held unless he is himself holding the ball. ”

“ When the ball is kicked into touch, the player who kicked it in must go after it and bring it towards play, level with the spot on which it entered touch, and kick it straight into the middle of the game. The goal-posts must be six paces apart. A goal can be won in the open field by the ball being kicked under the cross bar and between the upright poles. If the ball is touched by an enemy behind the line of goal, a bully may be claimed five paces in front of goal. Three bullies are equal to one goal; and if the ball is forced through goals from a bully, it counts as one goal. ”