Patent ID: 6386997
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
In a method of playing a game on a field between teams having equal numbers of players, wherein play includesinitially designating one team as offense and the other team as defense, providing a ring for manual engagement by the players whereby the ring is thrown and caught by the players in the course of the game, marking the field to define a substantially rectangular playing area having a width and a length, defining a midline across the width of and substantially mid way along the length of the field, designating a pair of scoring areas across the width of and at opposing ends of the length of the field, requiring a throwing player of the offense team to throw the ring to a receiving player of the offense team, allowing guarding of an offense player by a defense player disposed at a predetermined distance from the offense player, limiting the steps the receiving player may take before throwing the ring to another receiving player of the offense team, the offense registering a URT score when the ring is caught by an offense player within the scoring area at the defense team end of the field, and calling a turnover when the thrown ring is blocked or intercepted by a defense player or dropped by a receiving offense player, wherein team offense and defense designations are reversed, the improvement comprising the steps of outlining a pair of supplemental scoring areas on the field surface spaced a predetermined distance from respective ones of said pair of scoring areas, and providing a supplemental PAU score attempt following a URT score wherein an offense player is allowed to throw the ring unguarded from a position on the defense end of the field attempting to bring the ring to rest within the defense team supplemental scoring area.