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business contact between coaches and officials; to eliminate an
"employer-employee" relationship otherwise unavoidable between
coaches and officials and obviously incompatible with the independent
thinking and rulings demanded from officials on the field; to mar-
shell and compile in one office all pertinent data, records, reports,
ratings, and schedules; to weed out the incompetent and insure the
discovery, recognition and advancement of capable officials, and, in
general, to develop courageous and fearless officiating of a stan-
dard that invites and commands the full confidence of players,
coaches, and public.

ARTICLE Il
GENERAL PRINCIPLES

 

SECTION 1. (a) The office of the Commissioner shall be the sole
agency for the appointment of football and basketball officials, and
as such, shall appoint, under the Regulations, all officials for
every varsity football and basketball game played by members, here-
inafter referred to as Member taatitetiontele

(b) The Commissioner may also appoint officials for
other institutions which comply with the Regulations and pay charges
fixed by the Commissioner.

SECTION 2. The Revenue of the office of Commissioner shall be
derived from two sources; 1. Allotment by one or more conferences.
2. Allotments by the Football and Baskotbell Officials Associations,
should such organizations be formed.

NOTE: This scheme of affairs would work out more aitvenbemoously
provided an officials' assn. were formed for both football and
basketball. In this case, the Commissioner could be named Secy.-
Treas. of the officials’ assn.

SECTION 3. The Preferential Lists, as submitted by the coaches, and
the Eligible List, as made up by the Commissioner, shall be the
determining factors in the eppointment of officic 21s for any game.

SECTION 4. (a) The eppointment of an official to any game, if made
by the Commissioner in accordance with the Regulations, shall be
considered completed when the usual notices have been forwarded by
the Commissioner to the certain officials and Member Institutions
directly concerned.

(b) Thereafter no appointment shall be cancelled or
altered in any important detail, without the consent of each intor-
ested party, namely, the two contesting institutions, the official
appointed, and the Commissioner.

SECTION 5. An official shall not be appointed to any game played by
a Member Institution unless his name is included on the current
Preferential List of that Member Institution, cxcept as provided in
Article Iii, Section 1, and Article 1V, Section 4.

SECTION 6. Member Institution(s) may retain for any succeeding year,
the services of any official appointed to that game for the current

year, provided such member Institution(s) notify the Commissioner on
or before December 15 in the said current year, of their desire to do
so. Should conflicting retainer rights on the seme official develop,