Lost Contact Lens and Timeout

[BillyMac]

Thirty-five years ago, when contacts first became popular, we were encouraged to ask captains in pregames who wore contact lenses on their team and to mark it in the scorebook, seemingly to prevent "free" timeouts. That procedure went out of fashion real fast as the number players with contact lenses increased exponentially.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Thirty-five years ago, when contacts first became popular, we were encouraged to ask captains in pregames who wore contact lenses on their team and to mark it in the scorebook, seemingly to prevent "free" timeouts. That procedure went out of fashion real fast as the number players with contact lenses increased exponentially.

We were asking the Captains as early as the mid-1970s and after officiating and having a deaf female student-athlete. who did not wear her hearing aids, who played for Miami-Dade C.C.-North and then played or Florida International University I also would ask about hearing aids and also have those marked in the Scorebook.

MTD, Sr.