Show vv q qu u vv vv Colleges 9 Plan Pan Offic Officials s Organization U I UTAH m SCHOOLS Will ML DIRECT HOOP POLICY Uniform Officiating Is Goal High Schools Asked to Assist By TOon TO vim vim- FITZPATRICK ALT LAME LAKE Feb Another S g Another SALT S I Intercollegiate basketball lI sea ca canon son Ron In Utah will be bo H ft thing ot of the past after the first week nook in March Whon tien the curtain raises tor for the 1925 season seMon ea on tho colleges will hove have an officials official organization of ot their own so BO that thc they may Inay get got the best besl In the state to work In th their lr games C Certain high school athletic officials have cast rumble aroun I the about bits bM- bM and nl have given the tho hoop tans fans th the Idea that the colleges are arc playing a different nt bland of ot bas baa baa- basketball to that placed cd In the tho high schools They have even een e en ZOne ono ono ao 80 far nn M to on nay that It if their high school officials do not call the same things as called In the high school ga games mea that those men will willbo willbe willbe bo be o ostracised front from the high school athletic association and their certificates certificates t s taken away from them The Tho of ot the Brigham Young r Utah Agricultural al tI coll college ge and ond the University ot of Utah are oro playing basketball ac- ac ac according cording to the same am rules and regu regu- regu-I regu regulations regulations I lations of ot the rule books booke govern the tho playing In the high I games and the bo boys of ot the three teama teams are being coached ac cording to rules rulos Many who witnessed the college games this veer have said that some ot of the high school battles have been beams rough rougher r And the In III some ot of i-e i gm games s very vet much poorer than th the officiating In the college games me which have already b been en pia ad CIUTI During the last three college games critics from the high school athletic association have base visited the games ames and tried to In Instruct the cot cot- collego iego col-iego lego officials as ns to their duties Certain lain tain college coaches take tahe tal 9 exception to this method of o riding Jie data and placing them thorn at a d disadvantage I vantage antage on the floor It if the college officials are aro to be questioned on their decisions a collage basketball critic seems to tobe tobe tobe be tee t man joan that should do that I work from the side Bide lines I IThe i The coaches also take exception to the r reflection that ha has been boen broadcast about their stylo ot of o baa baa- bas basketball I arid and n there hero e ew is not one of Ih Ihn them that w ill not w welcome c a critic I to their practices practice so 80 th that t the tans fans can see there Is la no difference to the brand of ot basketball In the cot cot- college col colleges leges lege and high schools It not be a wise mo move moe 0 tor for the thc college coaches to attempt to teach fach differ differ- different different ent cot basketball as they would ha haie e eto to change a mans man's st tle Ie from sear ear to year and also break the basket basket- basket ball ball bali rules rulea The coach coaches s want the fans to know that th their lr men are coached according to the rules ot of I Ithe the official book and that the of ot of-I of officials are to call the same things In college games gomes as they call tall In the I high school battles College basketball Is played and coached In the same way as the high schools When officials are se- se selected se selected to take Cal came caie e of ot tho the games the men are usually those thoss that have bad had from tram ten to fifteen year of basketball experience and ond m men n nI I who usually call Just what they theys Bee aee on 00 the floor I Many officials official hav have been Incon- Incon Inconsistent Incon In calling their toula foul and andall mill II or of o the college coaches want thorn them to be consistent t In their work T OFFICIALS I Even Evea In the tho high school games cames officials who havo been given oer-I oer oer- oer oer I are sometimes Incompetent tent tont to handle high school or col- col collen colI collee lere col-lere I len le-e games ama at all but they are brought Into the thc association bo- bo boI b be I cause tries are willing to be dic- dic dictated dic dictated to by the tho powers of ot the as- as as One time they will call calla calla e a thing and end the next moment let It go TO Having witnessed two nil nil- na national A A U IT basketball ment moot wh where ro the officiating has ha been strict and according to the letter of the rule rulo the writer has never naver seen umpires take the places or of referee In the tho games Kames In tossing up the ball for tor and out of oC bounds It If a II referee Id is not taut fast I enough enouch to follow the ball bail at all times on the floor and ond to call his fouls foule when n they are made on the I I ball bali then that man roan I Is la Inconsistent and nd should not ba bl handling the I ball at all In the tho A A A U tournaments tournaments ments the tho umpire was able oble to catch all of ot tho the a trick or fouls foula commItted In la tho the and back of ot the tho ball He wa was also able ablo to charging see ase blocking pushing ing ng dribbling In tripping and ond holding Yo while hile tho the referee e wae wa get get- get getting ting clog the same kind of ot fouls on the ball Officials In 0 basketball must be fast talt at all times referee or urn urn- umpIre um umpire pire and It If they cannot do this then they cannot successfully carry out carryout their work on the basketball court and should give way TO me who can The colleges need an 00 organization tion of ot officials the same aa os they thoy have bave In Colorado and the schools schoola ne need d their organization Another formation year will wUI see aee the forma fOrtna tion of ot such an organization ao 1 that the college officials official and the I high school officials official can enn call th thel sane same kind of ot basketball and sO ao that the college policies of Ic ics athletics are not going to be bo dictated by hIgh school officers The writer I I has a good wholesome respect the work that has baa been ben done In the high school officiating hut but he ho deplores the fact tact that some of ot the men who ho have done dono this good work gork are trying to besmirch col- col r fege rege col-rege Aa basketball by gh giving Ing the Im- Im im that the college coaches coches player lay rs and officials are no not living up to tho th letter leller of the rutes rules One of ot the numerous plans that Isas b- b been n la is to hate ha Iro- Iro ho mer flier former coach at the atthe West VeAt Vest high school take charge ot or the work for tor the college men and form an organization ao so that the rules can be Interpreted In the same ume a that they are In the high throughout schools Unified officiating through out will result and men who scho clat officiate college He gOo games game mea need n eil not airily officiate the high se school ool bring brine ri a spectators wIng Ing 10 dec der the that teRms teams minutes lead through Kent had 10 finish and alter after Gaston the crO crowd d w suspense woof of ot the clock minute game games The tire time him has come when college officials official must be b united There will not be any trouble In selecting men to handle the coll college ge game a as aa each coach can submit I isis his list HIt of ot official to the adjust adjust- adjuster adjuster er In the same way that the coach coach- coaches es Cs do with their college football officials in the Rocky Mountain ln conference The colleg colleges feel teel that they ther the should hould t take k the lead load In this thIa affair and add feel that thet they are arc ca capable pable of handling their own tol- tol col el- el lege college ellege lr A T 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