Babee es: | OFFICIALS AND THEIR DUTIES

 

SECTION 3. The Referee shall decide whether a goal shall count
Rélerec if the Officials disagree. He shall decide matters
Announces Score. ypon which the Timekeepers and the Scorers dis-
agree. At the end of each half he shall check with the Scorers and
announce the score. His announcement at the end of the second
half shall terminate the connection of the Officials with the game.

SECTION 4. The Referee shall have power to make decisions on
Elastic Power. any points not specifically covered in the rules.

SECTION 5. The Officials shall put the ball in play; shall de-

cide when the ball is in play, when it is dead, to
whom it belongs and when a goal has been made. They shall make
decisions upon infractions of the rules, administer all penalties,
order time out as prescribed by the rules, signal when substitutes
may come on the court and supervise substitutions. They shall in-
dicate each goal as made by denoting with their fingers the point
value of the goal.

SECTION 6. The Officials shall require to leave the game a
player who has made four personal fouls, or a
player who has committed a disqualifying foul.

SECTION 7. The Officials shall have power to call fouls for un-
wiiiadie sportsmanlike conduct on the part of players,
Unsportsmanlike coaches or spectators. They may disqualify players
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for flagrant unsportsmanlike conduct.

Ques.—Who is responsible for behavior of spectators? Ans.—The
home management or committee in charge of the game, insofar as
they can reasonably be expected to control the spectators. The
Officials may call fouls on either team if its supporters act in such
a way as to interfere with the proper conduct of the game. Dis-
cretion must be used in calling such fouls, however, lest a team
be unjustly penalized.

SECTION 8. Neither Official shall have authority to set aside
San aaa see question decisions made by the other _Wwithin
Make Different the limits of his respective duties as outlined in
Decisions.

these rules.

If the Officials make approximately simultaneous decisions on
the same play and the infractions involve different penalties, the
more severe penalty shall be imposed. If both teams commit in-
fractions of the jump ball rules on the same play, however, the ball