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Old Wed Mar 29, 2017, 05:50pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Steal The Ball, Steal The Ball, Steal The Ball ...

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Originally Posted by Old Man Ref View Post
... coach yells "foul him, foul him."
Back in the ancient days, that was pretty much an automatic intentional foul. In my early days of coaching middle school basketball, back in the late 1970's, I was told by a fellow teacher who also officiated our home games to come up with a code word. From that point on, the code word was, "Steal the ball". I used it for over twenty-five years, even after the NFHS changed to rule to allow for strategic fouling at the end of the game.
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