The Manual of Football Officiating by Jim Briggs is now available to order.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/jim-briggs/manual-of-football-officiating/paperback/product-20314854.htmlThe Manual of Football Officiating has been periodically revised since its first
publication in 1984, and is now in its 14th edition. It is the most comprehensive book
ever written on the mechanics of football officiating.
Here's what some leading football officials say about it:
This manual is an encyclopedia of the “best practices” of football officiating. The
nearly two hundred pages are devoted to individual positions, a pre-game, general
principles and axioms, measurements, working with your chain crew, etc. It’s as
comprehensive an officiating resource as any you will read. Combine this manual with
your NFHS and NCAA/CFO manuals and you and your crew will be on the road to
raising your game.
- Bill LeMonnier, Big 10 and IFAF official (Bill also wrote the foreword)
Two things an officiating manual should cover: a practical approach and a common
sense method of application. This manual does both in an outstanding way. It is hard
to define common sense, but this work does a great job of breaking down situations
and showing how both ordinary issues and complicated ones should be handled.
- Jerry Grunska, long-time officiating educator and REFEREE magazine columnist
The exceptional official will typically posses a comprehensive understanding of game
situations and strategies, rules of the game and, the mechanics to be applied by each
member of the team of officials. Jim Briggs has provided football officials at every
level with a clear, understandable, and detailed description of officiating mechanics
which encompasses every component of the game. It most certainly is an invaluable
tool for improving one's comprehension of the essential mechanical components used
by those who are motivated to become an even better, perhaps exceptional, official.
- Billy Beckett, ACC and IFAF official
This is the book that's used by most officials associations outside the USA, including for international competitions. This is a vastly updated version of the edition published by REFEREE magazine in 1995.
There is currently a 20% discount available for RefStripes subscribers and other early purchasers. Order your copy now.
All profits from the sale of this book go back into developing new educational resources for officials.
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