OT: tv game from 1963

[Mark Padgett]

Watched an old episode of "Dennis The Menace" from 1963 today, and it was about Dennis' elementary school basketball team. I'm not as knowledgeable as some of the guys on the rules back then (assuming real lower level school teams used NF rules) but I did see the following:

*players had numbers only on the back of their jerseys
*many players had "illegal" numbers
*one player played barefoot (not kidding)
*they played 10 minute halves
and worst of all - the referee (there was only one) wore khaki pants WITH A BELT!!!!!

[Stat-Man]

In the 1960's, I'm not sure there were the same restriction on numbers as there are now.

My dad's yearbooks from that era show pictures of the boys basketball teams wearing all kinds of numbers that would be illegal today... and shorts with belts.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

The referee wore khaki pants WITH A BELT!!!!!

First of all, I was not officiating basketball in 1963. And, second of all, shut up.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

One player played barefoot.

Legal in 1963. Legal in 2013.

[The_Rookie]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Watched an old episode of "Dennis The Menace" from 1963 today, and it was about Dennis' elementary school basketball team. I'm not as knowledgeable as some of the guys on the rules back then (assuming real lower level school teams used NF rules) but I did see the following:

and worst of all - the referee (there was only one) wore khaki pants WITH A BELT!!!!!

Don't all referees wear khaki pants with belts and white shoes or is it just me??

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Legal in 1963. Legal in 2013.

What if he has a toe ring?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

What if he has a toe ring?

Illegal in 2013. Not sure about 1963, however, if I can remember that far back, only Middle Eastern belly dancers wore toe rings in 1963, and I doubt that they played basketball.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

1) The NFHS and NCAA Men's numbering rule was the same in the early 1960's as it is today for NFHS and NCAA Men's/Women's with two exceptions: a) The jersey numbers 1 and 2 were illegal, and b) A team could have both a 0 and a 00 at the same time.

2) How do I know? I remember from watching games when I was young. My H.S. basketball and golf coach (he was my sister's H.S. golf coach too) and a charter member in 1948 of the Trumbull Co. Bkb. Assn. (Warren, Ohio), an association I have been a member of since 1971, and his family were our next door neighbors. Meaning I saw a lot of boys' H.S. basketball games before I ever stepped on the court as a Jr. H.S. player in the 1963-64 season.

3) The oldest rule book in my basketball officiating library is the 1963-64 NBCofUS&C (National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada), the predecessor rules committee to the NFHS and NCAA Men's/Women's Rules Committees.

MTD, Sr.