Religious head scarf legal? (Girls NFHS)

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I will probably take a lot of flack for what I am about to write, but I would not have let the players play because it is a safety hazard. If game administration told me that I had to let them play I would have walked away from the game. My first responsibility is to the safety of all of the players.

To emphasize my point, when we lived in Los Angeles (Glendale actually: 1982-84) I had a good friend who was a basketabll official and of the Jewish faith. There was a private school that belonged to the CIF and it was a Jewish school and it wanted its players to be allowed to wear yarmulkes. Neither my friend nor I ever officiated the team, but he told everybody that if he did he would not let them wear them because the yarmulkes had nothing to do with the sport of basketball.

I think that we have taken political correctness to illogical extremes.