Face off Scrum!!!

[WellyLax]

Hey,

Searched but really couldnt find anything on this.

The ILA rules state that once the whistle blows a player may:

"direct the course of the ball by movement of his Crosse in any manner he desires"

But they say nothing about actual physical contact. We have a guy on our team who faces off by simply smashing into his opponent and almost ignoring the ball.

We are a very new club, and seeing as Lacrosse is pretty thin on the ground in NZ, half of us havent even played before. We have a tourny this coming weekend and i want to be sure that he isnt going to cost us possesion on every FO.

Cheers.

[wolfenburg]

I think you mean ILF (int. man) rules. (IWLA is for girls).

As far as I know you have to go to the ball at face off.
rule 34.5 (hope the numbers are equal in german as in the original version) that a player in face off position may not be checked. (However, this rule is named is manly for the players on the wing).

[Beacher]

In Canada, under ILF rules, this is actually a fairly common tactic. And legal. The rule that wolfenburg refers to protects the drawmen from the wingers, but doesn't govern contact between the drawmen themselves. So long as your face-off middie doesn't do anything illegal like holding, crosschecking, or hitting his opponent above the shoulders or below the waist he should be fine.

[bigdale9]

i did this tactic as a fogo in my final game last season and is a great tactic, so is boxing people out also both are legal

[ColtsLax]

our summer league uses ILF rules and i use this tactic all the time, nothing hurts like a big dman just drilling the small fogo