Terp Fall Classic Rules

2015 Terp Fall Classic RULES:

  • ALL GAMES on Saturday are full checking USL women’s rules.
  • Games on Sunday at Blandair are Full Checking
  • 
Games on Sunday at Oakland Mills are modified & some (2023 & 2024) are no checking.
  • Western Regional Turf WR4 & WR5 Sunday Full Checking
  • Western Regional grass WR7,WR8,WR10 some full/modified/no
  • (2016,2017,2018,2019) U15 full checking
  • (2020 & 2021) U13 full checking if both coaches agree
  • 
(2022, 2023,2024) U11 & U9 NO CHECKING
  • PLEASE bring rule book Youth Rules are on Pages 78 & 79

High School & Middle School Games:

  • 2–20 minutes halves/2 minute half-time
  • 3 minutes between games
  • No time-outs allowed
  • Officials will keep time on the field
  • DO NOT SHORTEN TIME!
    • If horn sounds at the end of time when a free position is being awarded in the critical scoring area – the game will continue until scoring play is over
  • No official scores will be kept.

Yellow Cards:

  • Time kept on the field by the referee!
  • 2 minutes for each card.
  • Player must remain in front of scorer’s table 
(kneeling or sitting) for entire 2 minute penalty.
  • Teams WILL NOT play down after 4 or more cards.

Saturday Rules

  • If at the end of each half, an 8m shot has been whistled, the shot will be awarded. One shot, no rebound play.
  • Games will be regulation and the clock will run at all times. No overtime or tiebreakers.
  • No time outs.
  • No jewelry. Band aids to not constitute “jewelry”.
  • The “home” team is designated by who is listed first on the schedule.
  • The head coach will be responsible for the behavior of personnel affiliated with their team, including all assistant coaches, and will receive any cards related to the lack of bench decorum. A yellow or red card to the coach counts toward team fouls and a player must be removed for 2 minutes.
  • Players receiving 2 yellows will NOT have to sit the following game, but it will be reported to the tournament director and subsequent cards could result in suspension.
  • A coach receiving a red card could be required to sit an additional game. A player receiving a red card could be required to sit an additional game. All decisions on penalties for cards will be at the discretion of the tournament committee and the head official.
  • On the draw the ball will be placed in the upper 1/3 of the crosse at the widest part, just above the shooting strings. Players must draw up.
  • Goalkeepers cross may be 52”
  • A player may not check towards the body.
  • Teams will play short on a yellow or red card in both their offensive and defensive ends. IE: always 4 between the restraining lines. This is a 2 minute non-releasable foul.
  • Teams will play short for the remainder of the game in both their offensive and defensive ends after a team receives its fourth yellow or red card.
  • Play in the sphere: offensively a player cannot hold, with or without cradling, the head of her crosse in front of her face or her teammates’ face, within the sphere or close to her body, or her teammates’ body. Defensively a player cannot reach into or through the sphere.
  • Cross-Check: using the shaft of the cross to hit, push, or displace an opponent. This includes, but is not limited to, thrusting, jabbing, pushing, or displacing any part of an opponent’s body.
  • Illegal use of the crosse: Using the crosse in a dangerous and/or intimidating manner, for example:

1. Directly poking or waving the cross near an opponent’s face

2. Making a sweeping check from behind that contacts the opponent’s body

3. Lowering the head of the crosse below shoulder level and initiating crosse-to-body contact; or

4. Any other action with the crosse that, in the umpire’s opinion, amounts to the dangerous or intimidating play.

5. Lowering the head of the cross below shoulder level and initiating crosse-to-body contact; or

6. Any other action with the crosse that, in the umpire’s opinion, amounts to dangerous or intimidating play.

Sunday Rules

  • On the draw the ball will be placed in the upper 1/3 of the crosse at the widest part, just above the shooting strings. Players must draw up.
  • Goalkeepers cross may be 52”
  • A player may not check towards the body.
  • Play in the sphere: offensively a player cannot hold, with or without cradling, the head of her crosse in front of her face or her teammates’ face, within the sphere or close to her body, or her teammates’ body. Defensively a player cannot reach into or through the sphere.
  • Cross-Check: using the shaft of the cross to hit, push, or displace an opponent. This includes, but is not limited to, thrusting, jabbing, pushing, or displacing any part of an opponent’s body.
  • Illegal use of the crosse: Using the crosse in a dangerous and/or intimidating manner, for example:

1. Directly poking or waving the cross near an opponent’s face

2. Making a sweeping check from behind that contacts the opponent’s body

3. Lowering the head of the crosse below shoulder level and initiating crosse-to-body contact; or

4. Any other action with the crosse that, in the umpire’s opinion, amounts to the dangerous or intimidating play.

5. Lowering the head of the cross below shoulder level and initiating crosse-to-body contact; or

6. Any other action with the crosse that, in the umpire’s opinion, amounts to dangerous or intimidating play.

  • Modified checking below the shoulder only. No full checking.
  • No playing short below the restraining lines for a yellow or red card. Theyw ill play short for 2 minutes.
  • No deputy may be used for the goalie at any time (new US rule).
  • 3 second holding the ball…use a visible and audible count.
  • No follow through into the goal circle.
  • 4 goal differential will be used at the draw unless waived by the coach of the trailing team.

New Youth Rules

  • Uniforms must follow USL rules, light (undergarments) must match for home team. Dark for away.
  • Coaches: 2016 must stay in their half of the field endline to sub area. 2017 and below, full length of the field.
  • Goalie stick may be 52” (odes not need to be cut)