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Shot clocks are used in several sports including basketball, water polo, canoe polo, lacrosse, poker, ringette, korfball, tennis, ten-pin bowling, and various cue sports. It is analogous with the play clock used in American and Canadian football, and the pitch clock used in baseball. This article deals chiefly with the shot clock used in ...
Frank Earl Birch (November 11, 1883) was a college football and basketball referee [1] who first introduced signals. [2] [3] In 1920, he passed out cards to coaches and the press with a code of twelve gestures. [4] [5] He was a graduate of Earlham College. [6] He married Margaret Johnson. [7] He was also once mayor of Sterling, Illinois. [8]
Pages in category "College men's basketball referees in the United States" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The duties [3] of the basketball referee are exactly this: to ensure the game is played safely and fairly. The referee enforces the rules of the game and in a game will make hundreds of decisions—determining when a violation or foul occurs and then stopping the game to issue the correct penalty.
Henry O. "Hammerin' Hank" Nichols (born July 20, 1936 [1]) is an American college basketball referee and later supervisor of officials. In 2012, he was inducted as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. [2]
Che Flores (born July 18, 1979) is an American referee in the National Basketball Association who wears uniform number 91. [1] They are the first official to work National Collegiate Athletic Association, NBA G League, and Women's National Basketball Association championship games in the same year, and the first out non-binary transgender official in a major North American professional sports ...
Edward E. "Ed" Hightower is an American educator and former college basketball referee.. Hightower has refereed 12 NCAA Division 1 Final Fours. [1] He also officiated the 1990 World Championship of Basketball in South America, the European Basketball Championship in 1993, and the Goodwill Games in 1994 and 1998.
Matthew P. "Pat" Kennedy (January 28, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American basketball referee. A native of Hoboken, New Jersey, Kennedy officiated over 4,000 games from the 1928 to 1956. He worked for the NBA, NCAA, and Harlem Globetrotters and became well known for his intense, theatrical style of calling plays.