How many football officials are in the US?

[DonInKansas]

Originally Posted by Warrenkicker

There are about 1000 football officials registered in 2008 in Kansas. I would guess about 15% of those don't work any varsity games due to experience or personal choice. We have about 350 high school teams so on any given Friday we need about 830 officials as we have both 5-man and 4-man games.

According to the KSHSAA website, the number given is 1,402 registered officials for football in Kansas.

[Warrenkicker]

Originally Posted by DonInKansas

According to the KSHSAA website, the number given is 1,402 registered officials for football in Kansas.

You are right. When you use that search engine it comes back with 1402. However when you go through the official's directories that they mail out the number is much closer to 1000. I wonder why the difference. Either way we still only need about 830 per Friday night. The biggest problem we have around my area is getting enough guys to work the kid's games on Saturdays.