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Okay, here's what I will do next time. Require the coach to play the girl, until he claims she is injured. At which point I will say to the opponent coach, "I can't require her to play injured. If that creates an eligibility problem in the next game, you'll have to deal with that with the tournament director."
Fronheiser, I just want to point out that I wasn't in the mood to look for trouble, and I wasn't digging for a rule to push the coach up against. I just couldn't remember what the rules were about when a player was available. I didn't require him to go to the other gym and force a varsity player to dress down. This gal had played in my game already, and was dressed, in the book, and on the bench. If that's not available, I don't know what is. And I have had several refs with whom I discussed this, agree that I was correct to require her to play. So, I guess I wasn't totally out of line.
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