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Title: Official basket ball guide and Protective association rules for 1908 '09
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas Henry, 1870?- (from old catalog) Protective basket-ball association of the eastern states. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Basketball
Publisher: New York city, R. K. Fox
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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In mentioning the desirable, and, in fact, indispensablequalities an official should possess, the primary essentialwould seem to be that he should know the game ; he shouldalso know the rules and be perfectly posted on the generaland official interpretation thereof, and he should be onethat is accustomed to handling games, for good officialsare the result of long experience and training; they donot spring into existence over night. Impartiality is equally important; no referee or umpireshould be in any way connected with either of the com-peting teams and, preferably, he should not be a personknown to be on terms of intimacy with either team or anyplayer thereon. An official may be a perfectly conscientious,honest man; but if he is in the habit of handling gamescontinually for any one team he insensibly becomes accus-tomed to that teams style of play and is more than likelyto be influenced by it in his enforcement of the rules. In the case of a person who officiates at the home games
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PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION BASKET BALL. 41 of any particular team, receiving his expenses and perhapsa small bonus in addition for his services, it is nonsensicalto expect that a strange visiting team will receive thesame consideration at his hands as the organization thatpractically employs him. Quickness is another indispensable attribute. The officialshould be a man capable of covering ground rapidly ; alwayskeeping in the vicinity of the play while exercising duecare not to get into the way of the players. Decisionsshould be quick, almost to the point of anticipation, espe-cially in the case of an out of bounds and in forestallingif possible a tussle for a held ball, which experiencehas demonstrated to be the origin of most of the roughing. An official who knows his business is usually strict butseldom severe; his intelligence enables him to observe thedifference between an accident and a violation, and hisdecisions are given as much with reference to the spiritas to the letter of the

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