Manuals?
 

I'm curious: does anyone--MTD? someone else with an attic?--know when NFHS started issuing basketball officials manuals? My memory might be faulty, but I don't recall them when I started.

I'm pretty sure I got one my very first year, which would have been 1996 or 97.

I got one in 2000.

LRZ:

I started officiating in 1971 and the NBC (National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada: the Rules Committee for boys'/girls' high school and men's college) was publishing an Officials Manual way back then. When the NBC split into the NFHS and NCAA Men's Rules Committees, the NFHS continued to publish an Officials Manual and the NCAA turned over to the CCA the job of publishing an Officials Manual.

MTD, Sr.

Thanks, Mark. When was the split?

I started in 1981, maybe 1982. I'm sure that if I knew about FED manuals, I'd have had them. If I didn't have them, how oblivious I must have been!

LRZ:

You're welcome. The split of the NBC into the NFHS and NCAA Men's Rules Committees took place after either the 1976-77 season or the 1978-79 season. I can't give you a definitive answer without climbing up into the attic to go to go through my files.

The last year that the AIAW (Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women) sponsored a national tournament was the 1982-83 season. The NCAA took over the next season and used NAGWS Basketball Rules for that one season after which it formed its own Rules Committee and the CVS started publishing an Officials Manual for women's college basketball.

MTD, Sr.

Thanks again, Mark.

I was once asked to work a women's community college game under NAGWS rules, when icy road conditions kept one of the assigned refs from getting there.