REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON OFFICIALS Page 8.

Your Committee on Officials has tried to Giscover where-
in officiating , as a whole, can be improved and has made a few
Recommendations which we think if followed witl eventually improve
the caliber of officiating.

It seems that the big complaint from the spectators today
ig that when the whistle is blown they can't tell from the
actions of the official just what infraction has been called.

In the letter sent out some time ago about setting up a
system of signals to be used by officials we were not criticiz-
ing any one official but the method of ealling the foul. We think,
tha’ if a system of signals could be worked out, that cvuld be
universally adopted, that the spectators would be better satified.
At least, this has beon. proven in football

The Officials Committee would like to suggest that our
Association recommmed that the Rules Committce work out a set of
signals that can be universally used.

We have a few suggestions in addition to this. We would
like to make another suggestion in regard to officials! fees. We
suggest that conferences have a rule, that the regular conference
fee be a maximum fec, that can be paid by any member of that par-
ticular conference. In other words, in non-conference games officials
can be paid as much but not more than the fees paid for a conference
game.

In some conferences this year the officials have  Jeen
working as teams, and from reports, this his been quite sucessful.
We recommend that more conferences try this system noxt year.

The last suggestion is that whenever possible officials
working in a particular conference have a school in the early part
of the season where they actually officiate under supervision and
receive criticism for their work.

Respectfully submitted,
0. B. COWLES
Cnairman