Rule

A.A.U. Four-Wall Rules · American four-wall

Rule 18

Historical rulebook: not the current rules. The current rules are here (USHA Four-Wall Rulebook, as of 26 January 2025).

If a ball, before it is dead, touches a player on the way back from the front wall, it loses the point for the player touched and the ball is immediately out of play.

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How this rule changed

See the wording of this rule in every rulebook, with the changes marked.

How these ideas connect in this rule

together ×11together ×3together ×3together ×5together ×4together ×5Player actorFront wall placeBall thingWall thingPoint concept

4 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.