[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

One of the rules changes made for the 1963-64 basketball season that the National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada (the predecessor to the NFHS and NCAA Rules Committees) deleted a section of Rule 2 that allowed the game officials to stop the game or withold the ball from play so that a player could tie his/her shoe. The Rules Committee made mention of this deletion in an editorial comment in the rules that year. One can find a reference to the rule change in the NFHS 2000-02 Basketball Handbook on page 13 for year 1963. This rule change is still in effect under both NFHS and NCAA Men's/Women's rules.