# Rule 8 (Brokaw One-Wall Rules, 1916, historical)

> **Historical rulebook: not the current rules.** The current rules are here: https://handball.theperfectship.com/rules/one-wall/

If one "long" and one "short" or two "long" or two "short" balls served consecutively by the same server fail to touch the floor first within the court, between the service line and the front line, the server is out, and in doubles the side is out.

## Mentioned here

- [Server](https://handball.theperfectship.com/server.md)
- [Serve](https://handball.theperfectship.com/serve.md)
- [Change of serve (side-out)](https://handball.theperfectship.com/change-of-serve.md)
- [Court](https://handball.theperfectship.com/court.md)
- [Long line](https://handball.theperfectship.com/long-line.md)
- [Service line](https://handball.theperfectship.com/service-line.md)
- [Ball](https://handball.theperfectship.com/ball.md)
- [Doubles](https://handball.theperfectship.com/doubles.md)
- [Floor](https://handball.theperfectship.com/floor.md)

## Relationships

- Server relates to Ball: mentioned together in 7 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Floor: mentioned together in 5 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Court: mentioned together in 5 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Ball: mentioned together in 13 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Floor: mentioned together in 8 sub-rules.
- Court relates to Ball: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Court relates to Floor: mentioned together in 8 sub-rules.
- Service line relates to Ball: mentioned together in 5 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Doubles: mentioned together in 7 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Floor: mentioned together in 12 sub-rules.
- No link to the other terms shown: Change of serve (side-out), Long line.
- 20 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.

Rulebook: [Brokaw One-Wall Rules, 1916](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/brokaw-american-1916.md)

Source: James I. Brokaw, How to Play American Hand Ball (Spalding's Athletic Library No. 13; American Sports Publishing Company, copyright 1915; Library of Congress copy LCCN 16024697, catalogued 1916). Public domain.