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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
Well Mark, you still have not given me a rule saying we cannot hold play. I cannot recall the last time i had glasses on the floor. I don't think i have ever had College or HS varsity game with glasses on the floor. Maybe from time to time ( very rare) i might have seen someone ware sports glasses.
Are you saying in a College or HS varsity game, the ball is in the air and/or players rebounding, glasses go to the floor and you Will Beep, get your glasses, no basket, we go to the AP for team possession? I believe play will take care of itself.
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Let me address your second paragraph first. If a player goes down in the paint with an injury, how do you handle stopping play? If a player's glasses comes off in the paint, wouldn't you use the same criteria to stop play as you would for an injury? Of course you would. Depending on the situation, you might sound your whistle immediately, or wait until team control is established.
Now your first paragraph. I do not have my copy of the 1962-63 National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada in front of me, but if you go to page 13 of the 2000-02 NFHS Basketball Handbook and go to the year 1963. You will see "no time allowed to tie shoe lace, etc." In a side note you will see that the "force out" was eliminated during that school year also. If my memory is correct it was almost ten years before the NBA eliminated the force out.
As I have stated before, the Rules Committee placed an editorial comment in the rules stating that officials could no longer stop the game or withhold the ball from play so that a player could tie his shoe laces be deleting the rule that allowed the officials to do so. That is pretty clear to me. The Nat'l. Bkt. Comm. of the U.S. and Canada, was the predecessor to the NFHS and NCAA Rules Committees, and its rules and interpretations, are still enforce unless there is a subsequent change in the rules or interpretation.
The NFHS and NCAA has never made a rules or interpretation change pertaining to the situation, therefore the rule is still in effect. Since I do not have the 1962-63 rules book in front of me I cannot say for sure, but if my memory is correct, the deletion was made in a section of Rule 2, Officials and Their Duties.
I real regret that I do not have a copy of the 1961-62 rules book to compare with the 1962-63 book, that would be more enlightening. I know that I am repeating myself from other threads, but just because a Question (NFHS), Casebook (NFHS), or A.R. (NCAA) have been dropped from the latest rules book or casebook, does not mean that they are not longer applicable. These Questions, Casebook Plays, and A.R.'s are still are applicable. This logic also applies when a rule previously stated something was legal, and then the Rules Committee deleted the language that allowed something to be legal and made an editorial comment stating that the purpose of the deletion was to make what was previously legal now illegal.