Stop Game for Injury?

[totalnewbie]

By the way, this instruciton about stopping play was given in the "new refs" meeting (from new to 2 years reffing) and NOT given at the general meeting. So dont worry about it affecting varsity level officials, certainly not varsity level playoff officials.

At our meetings we do things in two stages, first the general meeting and then we break into groups.

The part where they mentioned they got the varsity refs on the same page with us on injury stoppages was at the general meeting. The direct instruction (by a senior association member) about stopping play in nearly every instance when a person is on the floor occurred in response to a discussion about handling injury situations in the "new ref" meeting.

To me, I understand why in that situation you would instruct new refs to err on the side of stopping play.

Clark

[Edited by totalnewbie on Jan 31st, 2005 at 02:53 AM]