NCAA rulebook

[dvasques]

Guys, anybody know how can I get a copy of 2007 NCAA rulebook so I can translate into portuguese and start going by these rules down here in Brazil?
Any help is widely apreciated

[RoyGardner]

You can download a copy here:

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p...all/2005/index

Use the "Download rules book" field.

[TXMike]

Wow!!! You are going to switch from NFL to NCAA !!! Good luck!! AT least you will have more sources available to help everyone learn and get questions answered.

[HLin NC]

Here's a newer link to download
http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/20...ball_rules.pdf

Its pdf format so you'll need Adobe.

[With_Two_Flakes]

Good move dvasques! It brings you into line with the rest of the World - NCAA Rules are the standard outside of North America. I know that they have started football in Portugal in the last couple of years - I heard they used Spanish officials in the beginning. I don't know if there are any Portuguese officials yet.

When I was a member of EFAF (the European Federation) I worked several games with a French official Olivier Valongo who was actually Portuguese but has lived and worked in France for years.

[dvasques]

Mike, we're not switching for beach footbal yet.
We're getting into the Pan American Football Association, and they use NCAA rules. Now it's my job to translate the rules and train some officials. And I'm already very scared of what might happen on the way.
The thing is we formed a Brazilian Football team this year and went to Uruguay to play a friendly game. It was interesting and everybody got very excited about playing on grass with the whole equipment. So now we're starting what should be a slow transition to grass and NCAA rules.

As a matter of fact, guys, there's some talk about a possibility of bringing one NCAA official down to Brazil to, maybe, help us out with a clinic or something like that, and to officiate a small tournament. Problem is that it seems like the date we'll have for that is during NCAA season. I'm trying to antecipate or postpone the date to april/may 2008 or 2009 and get our stuff out of the season's way.

Any ideas if I should speak to some president of officiating or something like that to arrange the visit or should I go look for officials individualy?

[MadCityRef]

Dick Honig might be able to help. honigs.com

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by With_Two_Flakes

Good move dvasques! It brings you into line with the rest of the World - NCAA Rules are the standard outside of North America.

Might as well add a historic note: the NCAA football rules have the longest continuity in the hands of a single organiz'n. NCAA was organized to take over intercollegiate football from a student-faculty-alumni committee that'd developed a set of rules which they'd gotten published annually by Spalding and was understood as standard. (Not universal, however: twice in the 19th Century, there had been regional breakaways from the Football Rules Committee.) Of course, had it been up to the students, they wouldn't've involved faculty at all. Inviting faculty onto the committee was a compromise they made to keep from having to go underground as unacceptable student activity, especially on campus. Later, control by the NCAA (which had no student represent'n at all) was again seen as necessary to keep football socially acceptable or even legally tolerated.

The other major codes of football in the USA -- those of Fed & NFL -- were both derived from NCAA's rules, and both the Federation and the NFL used NCAA rules for some years before amending them for their own purposes.

NCAA & Fed have also deliberately cooperated over the years re football and picked up much from each other's football rules. I would say that at least initially NCAA was the beneficiary, because early in their development of their own rules, Fed undertook a project of several years, being a rewrite that was implemented practically all at once when it was finished. That and a later rewrite very much clarified and condensed the rule book, and NCAA was at least inspired by Fed's editing job to eventually do better themselves. By contrast NFL's rules writing has been an accretion of details with little editing and reconciliation.

Robert

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Might as well add a historic note: the NCAA football rules have the longest continuity in the hands of a single organiz'n.

With all the acronym changes in the Canadian Rugby Unions, we could make soup!