OFFICIALS
REQUIREMENTS
Every W.K.C. official is required to attend at least six football
rules clinics
during the 2011 season. Officials are rated by the coaches
assigning secretary,
on attendance at rules clinics, graded on the National Federation
Test, and
their certified, approved or registered ratings.
We
would like to encourage everyone to take the National Federation
Test Part II. The test will be given online at a date to be
announced.
Football
- Black and white vertically striped shirts, long or short sleeved;
white tapered knickers, black stockings with a maximum 5”
stirrup and
modified Northwestern stripe; white socks worn inside with low cut
shoes,
worn outside 3” above the top of high cut shoes, black
football shoes and
black shoe laces; black belt and baseball-type cap. All officials
in a given game
shall wear the same type shirt. When worn during the game, the
jacket shall
be black and white vertically striped and all of the officials
shall wear them. If
a patch is worn on the jacket, it shall be the K.H.S.A.A. Official
Jacket Emblem.
No local association patch is worn.
NOTE: NFL/Collegiate-style long
“warm-up” pants with vertical white
stripe may be worn for all games, as long as all
members of the crew are
identically dressed.