James's Four-Wall Rules · American four-wall
Rule 11 Short serve returned with the foot
HistoricalJames's Four-Wall Rules, 1873 (historical)
A ball that is served short to the player and he strikes it with his foot upon the front wall, the striker after returning it on the wall, has the priviledge of preventing the player from striking it again.
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How these ideas connect in this rule
- Actor
- Action
- Place
- Thing
- related term
- mentioned together in sub-rules (×number)
- Player relates to Serve: mentioned together in 6 sub-rules.
- Player relates to Ball: mentioned together in 12 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Ball: mentioned together in 6 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Ball: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Wall: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Wall: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
4 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.