Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clayton Chapman, assistant to the commissioner of the ECAC, spelled out the rules regarding Bolduc's eligibility. What it amounts to is that if any student-athlete plays knowingly with a group of professionals, whether or not he is being paid, he is ineligible to play that sport in college...
...ECAC plunks this select breed of traffic cops on to inhospitable hardwood floors to oversee the rough and tumble of collegiate basketball, as they are buffeted up and down the court for 40 minutes by the breakneck action that dominates today's brand of play...
...Charlie's got a lot of guts out there," says referee John Hannon of his fellow official and sometime partner Charles H. Diehl, who is acknowledged by his whistle-toting peers as the premier ECAC strongman...
...mandatory written exam for entering the referee ranks. The would-be refs are also marked on a "flaw test," says Hannon, which "is pretty much cut and dried." After making the grade, refs work junior varsity ball for two years and then apply to be placed on the ECAC freshmen officials list. They are then either elected or relegated to the high schools by a vote of varsity-level officials...
...kind of like officiating" he muses. "We have our successes and we have our failures but its also like officiating because we only know about our failures." On the side, Diehl conducts a five class clinic at Somerville High every year to prep young men for the ECAC examination...