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These awards are presented to area schools for their outstanding efforts in the "little things" that make high school football such a valued part of our communities.

All too often, these individuals go unnoticed or unappreciated, and it is our goal through these awards to show them our appreciation for their efforts," stated Mike Carr, Vice President of the SWOA

This year's award winners are: Game Management: Brodhead High School and Monona Grove High School Chain Crew: Evansville High School- Bill Krumwiede, Dave NFL Officials Break Out the New Pants Olsen,

Ball Boy: Ryan Baxter, Baraboo High School; Friend of Officials: Mike Friedel, McFarland High School Each of this year's award winners will be awarded a plaque commemorating their outstanding

1 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Southern Wisconsin Officials Association Football Newsletter E DITED BY MIKE CARR, SWOA FOOTBALL VP POSTSEASON 2006 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 2006 Appreciation Awards MADISON- The Southern Wisconsin Officials Association (SWOA) have announced their inaugural SWOA Appreciation Awards for the 2006 football season. These awards are presented to area schools for their outstanding efforts in the "little things" that make high school football such a valued part of our communities. "We decided as an association to poll our members and recognize those individuals who make our avocation and the game of football better because of their hard work and participation. All too often, these individuals go unnoticed or unappreciated, and it is our goal through these awards to show them our appreciation for their efforts," stated Mike Carr, Vice President of the SWOA for football. This year's award winners are: Game Management: Brodhead High School and Monona Grove High School Chain Crew: Evansville High School- Bill Krumwiede, Dave NFL Officials Break Out the New Pants Olsen, Gary Fuchs, Tom Petterson & Richard Schwartz. Ball Boy: Ryan Baxter, Baraboo High School; Friend of Officials: Mike Friedel, McFarland High School Each of this year's award winners will be awarded a plaque commemorating their outstanding contribution as recognized by the SWOA during the 2006 season. The black officials' pants with a white stripe are new cold weather gear. These pants are cold and wind resistant and allow the officials to wear other cold weather garments underneath. The officials' shirts for the 2006 season are a new design, as are the black pants. Ed Hochuli (who was born in Milwaukee) and his crew were the first crew to wear the new pants when the Chargers played at Buffalo on December 3rd. For more information on the history of sports officiating gear, see the article on page 2. Uniwatch 2 Clinic Tip 3 Post Season Games 4 New VP Needed 5 Mission Statement 5 Did You Know? SWOA CLINIC August 10th August 11th MARK IT DOWN

2 SOUTHERN WISCONSIN OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL NEWSLETTER Uni Watch How the Zebra Got His Stripes by Paul Lukas Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company. So this zebra walks into a bar no, really! It was on a recent Saturday afternoon at Butler's, a fine New York City watering hole, when a gent walked in wearing a referee's jersey, complete with the familiar black-and-white stripe pattern. That got Uni Watch thinking: Why do officials in so many sports wear zebra stripes? And how did the striped design get started, anyway? Those questions prompted a disinterested shrug from the fellow at Butler's, but subsequent inquiries were more successful. According to an article from the archives of the conceptually brilliant Referee magazine, the striped design was the brainchild of one Lloyd Olds, a longtime high-school and college sports official from Michigan. The impetus for the idea came in 1920, when he was working a college football game while wearing a white shirt, which was customary at the time for officials in most sports. The visiting team wore white as well. At one point, the quarterback mistakenly handed off the ball to Olds. "Of course I dropped it," he later recalled, "and, thank goodness, he recovered same." Olds figured this white-on-white confusion could be avoided if officials wore stripes. So he had a friend in the sporting goods biz create a prototype, which he first wore while working the 1921 Michigan state high-school basketball championships. As Olds continued to wear stripes while officiating in several different sports, the idea spread rapidly throughout the world of high-school and collegiate athletics. The striped look eventually caught on in the professional ranks as well, although specifics are a bit fuzzy the assorted pro leagues and halls of fame have surprisingly little data on what their officials have worn over the years. Here's what Uni Watch has managed to cobble together: Football: NFL officials originally wore white knickers, white dress shirts, black bow ties, black stockings, and white hats that looked like a cross between a beret and a British walking cap. Internet-linkable photos from this era have proved elusive, but the caps were briefly revived during the NFL's 1994 throwback games. In 1941 the league switched to baseball caps and, interestingly, a color-coded system of vertically striped jerseys: The referee's stripes were black and white while the head linesman wore red and white, the umpire wore orange and white, and the field judge donned green and white. Everyone went to the standard blackwhite design in 1945, the same year officials began wearing uniform numbers, and the league's basic officiating uni has remained relatively constant since then. Hockey: In the NHL's early days, refs and linesmen wore beige sweaters, much like those worn by officials in this season's throwback games. What the throwback look omits, however, is that these sweaters were originally worn over white dress shirts and black neckties (the latter of which were sometimes striped). Information from the NHL Officials Association suggests that the league briefly switched to orange sweaters (the mind fairly boggles) before opting for the basic zebra design in the early 1950s. This look has held fairly steady since then, with one slight tweak: Officials took the ice for the All-Star Game wearing solid-black sleeve undersides, a modification that proved so popular that the league permanently adopted it the following season. Basketball: The NBA has never fully embraced the zebra look, presumably because there's little chance of a normal-statured guy wearing a T-shirt and trousers being mistaken for a pituitary freak in a tank top and shorts. Early NBA refs wore long-sleeved gray pullovers with wide-lapelled blue collars. The league went to black-and-white striping in the early 1950s, but only temporarily by 1971 refs were wearing short-sleeved gray shirts similar to those they wear now (but without that horrific blue side piping, which someone really needs to do something about, like, yesterday). Uni Watch suggests that the league might want to revisit the zebra motif since NBA refs many of whom look like Humpty Dumpty compared to the towering players are the officials most in need of the lengthening, slimming effect that vertical stripes provide. Continued on Page 3

3 SOUTHERN WISCONSIN OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 Clinic Tip On an interception, Referee, make sure you find your QB, because I am sure that #11 has found him already. For him to take a good shot, the QB better be in the play. The defense does not get a free shot on the QB in that situation. -Bill LeMonnier Uni Watch con t Rival leagues: Since most upstart leagues have been founded during the era of color TV, it's not surprising that many of them have tried to jazz up the zebra look. Officials in the American Football League, for example, wore orange-and-white striped jerseys with black cuffs and collars. Their counterparts in the American Basketball Association wore red and white with blue cuffs and collars a color scheme that was also worn by officials in the short-lived World Hockey Association. Officiating crews in the even shorter-lived World Football League wore an odd design featuring blue-and-gold stripes during their first season, but by their second and final year, they'd reverted to basic black and white. Perhaps learning from this example, the USFL and XFL dressed their officials in standard zebra stripes as well. The zebra look has infiltrated many other sports, including lacrosse, wrestling, and on at least one notable if atypical occasion, boxing. The big exception, of course, is baseball, where umpiring attire has generally been rooted in prevailing menswear fashions. But the zebra phenomenon has nonetheless influenced Major League Baseball: In 2001, when umpires' shirts and jackets switched from navy to black with white trim, an MLB spokesman explained: "We wanted the rest of the officiating world to know that we were part of that fraternity. Black and white is kind of the universal symbol." (That reasoning has apparently been revised because blue-suited umps will be making a comeback this season further details in Uni Watch's upcoming 2004 baseball preview column.) As for Lloyd Olds, now deceased, he'd no doubt be astonished by the ubiquity his simple design has achieved. Perhaps even more amazing, Olds unwittingly provided the dress code for one of the nation's largest retailers: If not for his innovation, Foot Locker shoe salesmen might be wearing white shirts and bow ties. Copyright 2006, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. All rights Reserved.

PAGE 4 2006 SWOA Post Season Assignments Pat O

2 Championship Franklin 36 Brookfield Central 29

Todd Wittlinger Kent Holmquist Tom Wohlleber Div.

November 18, 2006 SWOA Members Jim Krogstad

January 6, 2007 SWOA Member Terry Anderson

Bill LeMonnier Jon Lucivansky Fiesta Bowl Boise

4 PAGE SWOA Post Season Assignments Pat O Brien Dick Synder WIAA Div. 2 Championship Franklin 36 Brookfield Central 29 November 17, 2006 SWOA Member SWOA Past President Todd Wittlinger Kent Holmquist Tom Wohlleber Div. III NCAA Playoff North Central 35 Concordia WI 6 November 18, 2006 SWOA Members Jim Krogstad International Bowl Western Michigan Cincinnati January 6, 2007 SWOA Member Terry Anderson Holiday Bowl Cal Texas A & M December 28, 2006 Bill LeMonnier Jon Lucivansky Fiesta Bowl Boise State Oklahoma January 1, 2007 Dennis Lipski (alt) Cotton Bowl Nebraska Auburn January 1, 2007

SWOA NEEDS YOU! Did You Know? As my term as the VP of Football comes to a close, I would like to thank everyone that has helped out in any way the past two years.

5 SWOA NEEDS YOU! Did You Know? As my term as the VP of Football comes to a close, I would like to thank everyone that has helped out in any way the past two years. You have made my job a lot easier and very enjoyable. Please contact me if you are interested in becoming the new VP for next season. It is a bit of a time commitment (planning the clinic, running the meetings, writing the newsletters) but well worth it. We also have a lot of great members that you can lean on for support or ideas. I have met so many different people and made so many new friends, that I definitely think it has been a great experience, both personally and professionally. The clinic is set for Aug. 10th and 11th next year and we are always looking for people to help. We tentatively have a commitment from a veteran Big Ten official (who hasn t been to our clinic in the past) that will be our lead clinician. Please contact me if you are interested, and stay tuned. I wish you the best in The crew that worked the 1957 Maryland against Carolina game For several decades, every NFL official wore white hats. In 1979, NFL referees started to wear black hats with white stripes, while every other NFL official continued to wear white ones. Finally, in 1988, the NFL switched to the high-school and college football style: the referee wears a white hat, and the other officials wear black hats with white stripes. The introduction of an American flag to the shirt of officials happened shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2006, the NFL completely redesigned shirts, going to a sleeker-looking uniform which, however, no longer identifies a given official's position from the front. The practice of having the referee announce penalties or clarify complex and/or unusual rulings over a wireless microphone started in the NFL in College football, and other professional leagues soon adopted this practice. Mission Statement The mission of the Southern Wisconsin Officials Association (SWOA) is to promote competent officiating in all sporting events and to provide officials with the necessary knowledge to warrant absolute public confidence in their integrity and methods. Members represent current and past officials throughout southern Wisconsin. The entire membership meets once a year to discuss the association goals and current state of affairs. Football and basketball hold monthly meetings during their respective seasons to discuss rules and mechanics. The SWOA also conducts annual football and basketball clinics. The meetings foster an open discussion to ensure SWOA officials are knowledgeable and ready to provide excellent officiating.

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