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Old Mon Mar 26, 2001, 01:29am
Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. is offline
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The rules do address this problem. I am not kidding you when I tell you that in the 1962-63 season the National Basketball Committe of the United States and Canada (the predecessor to the NCAA and NFHS rules committes) made an editorial change by deleting an a sentence within Rule 2 that had previously given the officials the authority to stop the game so that a player could tie his shoes. It was felt that a player should be able to tie his shoes such that they should not become untied during the course of play. This decision is still in effect until the NCAA and NFHS makes a rule change or interpretation to change. See the NFHS Basketball Handbook for 2000-01 and 2001-02 on page 13, year 1963. I do have a copy of the NFHS publication of the 1962-63 NBCUSC rule book but it is too late in the evening to go dig it out of the filing cabinet at this time.
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