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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Back when we did this mechanic, they were all two person crews.
The NFHS first published official mechanics for a three person basketball crew in 1997.
The NFHS had sanctioned the use of three officials for several years prior, and some states had already begun experimenting with the system for varsity games.
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Actually, the NBC Officials' Manual prior to the 1971-72 school year was divided into three sections: Section 1 covered everything that common to both a Two-Person Officiating Crew and a Three-Person Officiating Crew; Section 2 covered Two-Person Officiating; and Section 3 covered Three-Person Officiating.
After the NBC dissolved after the 1977-78 school year and the NFHS and NCAA Men's created their own Rules Committees the NFHS Officials Manual continued to use Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the NBC Manual and CCA started to publish a Two-Person and a Three-Person Officials Manual for the NCAA Men's Committee, and when the AIAW dissolved after the 1982-83 school year and the NCAA formed a Women's Rules Committee for the 1982-83 school year the CCA started to pubish Two-Person and Three-Person Manuals for the NCAA Women's Committee.
If my memory serves me correctly (and attic is too darn cold to go searching) I believe that it was no later that the early 1990s when the CCA stopped publishing Two-Person Manuals for both the Men's and Women's Committees, but I am positive that it was simultaneously with the NCAA changing to Rotation Mechanics which was the Summer of 1993. Prior to Rotation Mechanics, whoever called the Foul would become the new C Opposite the Table.
AIAW played under NAGWS Basketball Rules and NAGWS did not publish an Officials Manual but had a few pages at the end of the Rules Book about Mechanics. It should be noted that FIBA was the last to go to Three-Person Crews; the 1992 and 1996 Olympics were still using Two-Person Crews for both Men and Women, and if a competition were to use a Three-Person Crew, FIBA use the CCA Men's Manual. When I officiated the Polish National Men's Team at Cleveland State University in November 1993, we used a Three-Person Crew: Myself, another American official, and a Polish official (Who was a Civil Engineer whose was a Transportation Engineer for the City of Warsaw. He spoke English better that both of us American officials and was a chain smoker.
So endth today's History Lesson.
MTD, Sr.