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A Primer For Rookie Lacrosse Officials — Part II
Call the push and the slash
By Bob Lowe
March 13th, 2008

In Part I, I covered becoming familiar with the game and stressed the importance of the out-of-bounds call. The final installment discusses the most frequently called violation (pushing) and the most whistled penalty (slashing).
A Primer For Rookie Lacrosse Officials — Part I
By Bob Lowe
March 3rd, 2008

The game of lacrosse can seem wild and unmanageable to those not familiar with it. According to author Bob Lowe, however, new officials, especially referees already calling basketball or soccer, can adapt easily to lacrosse.
Why You'll Like Lacrosse
By Robert Daniell
January 30th, 2008

Bob Daniell writes:

It was a sunny and very cool Saturday morning in central New Jersey in late March, 1995. My twelve-year-old son Jordan and I were heading to Chamberlain Park for his first ever lacrosse practice.  While enroute Jordan asked me again, for what seemed like the 100th time, "Dad, why will I like playing Lacrosse?" 
 
Immediately my thoughts flashed back thirty years to Massapequa, a small town on the south shore of Long Island, and to the first time I held that old wood and gut stick in my hand — and it seemed that time had stood still.   

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Winter Indoor Lax
Orcs, hatchets, and Grumpy Old Men
By Robert Daniell
October 10th, 2007

Robert begins:

Soon, snow will be gently falling outside, and the campus of this private high school nestled in the confines of a sleepy hamlet in central Jersey will begin to look like a Norman Rockwell painting. It's well after dusk on a Sunday night, and the athletic building, now barely visible, will be more obscured by the mist and ice.

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NFHS Lacrosse Rule Changes 2006
By NFHS
August 18th, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS (August 18, 2006) — Effective with the 2007 high school lacrosse season, new rules will dictate the circumstances under which a head coach may discuss a misapplication of a rule. In addition to this change, 10 other rules revisions were approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Boys Lacrosse Rules Committee at its July 16-17 meeting in Indianapolis, and then were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.

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