If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

If a goal is scored by a player on the defending team, credit for the goal goes to the last player on the other team to have touched the puck ; this is because own goals in hockey are typically cases where the player so credited had his / her shot deflected, but this convention is used even where this isn't actually the case.

* If there is a red line on the goals, it means that you can not keep the air hockey mallet behind the red line.

* Ice hockey: If the score is even after three periods, the game may end in a tie, or overtime may be played.

If hockey were big in this country, he'd be what Jack Buck used to be.

The officer in charge of the investigation, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Ben Soave, said " If organized crime was a hockey game, Mr. Caruana would be Gretzky.

If the ball or puck hits the goal post or crossbar, ricochets off the goaltender, and into the net, it is a goal, and therefore a shot on goal, with the exception of NHL or ice hockey.

He went on to state " If you are concerned about global warming ( as I am ) and think that human-created carbon dioxide may contribute ( as I do ), then you still should agree that we are much better off having broken the hockey stick.

" If you're going to offer entertainment venues, whether they be basketball games, hockey games, rodeos, concerts, you have to have a venue that people are going to want to come to.

If areas designated for wheel chairs are included, the arena can seat 6, 290, plus standing room, during hockey games.

If a fight did not end in a referee stoppage, it was judged by a panel of hockey experts.

If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.

If, however, there are no shares left when the chain is founded, then the founding player does not receive the free share.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.

If the opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves ; if odd, the player in the left service court serves.

If a player does not lift, his only remaining option is to push the shuttlecock softly back to the net: in the forecourt this is called a netshot ; in the midcourt or rearcourt, it is often called a push or block.

If the player and dealer have the same point total, this is called a " push " and the player typically doesn't win or lose money on that hand.

If the dealer busts, all remaining player hands win.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

If the dealer's upcard is an ace, the player is offered the option of taking " insurance " before the dealer checks the hole card.

If a player wins two sets, or gets a win and a tie, that player wins the game.

If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.

If the chains are long enough then the player will certainly win.

If the other player also knows to offer sacrifices, the expert also has to manipulate the number of available sacrifices through earlier play.

If a player rolls two of the same number, called doubles, that player must play each die twice.

If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player's opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss.

If the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has checkers on the bar or in the opponent's home board, then the player has lost a backgammon, which counts for triple a normal loss.

" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.