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Old Fri Oct 22, 2021, 01:36pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Safety First ...

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Originally Posted by Raymond View Post
... concerned a coach was going to put a player back in the game after suffering an obvious head injury. If the coach had put him back in, I was prepared to have a notation entered in the scorebook stating that the player suffered a head injury and his coaches made a decision to let him return to the game.
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Originally Posted by Raymond View Post
I was specifically talking about how I handled a situation during the game when I couldn't call a commissioner or supervisor or state board.
The act of taking a few seconds to write something in the scorebook may have caused the head coach to take pause and reconsider the ramifications of reentering a possibly concussed player. Good idea. Safety first.
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