Get a Ref
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So you need a ref for your rugby match --- Here's how you go about getting one from the Northern California Referee Society. It is the home team's responsibility to ensure that a referee is available for their games. All games - high school, collegiate, men's 1st, 2nd, 3rd division, and women's - leading to a national championship (i.e. all league games) require a USA Rugby certified referee. During the regular season, the Referee Society has a master list of all games scheduled in Northern California and assigns referees to these games several days before the start of each month. If you have a game not on the schedule, notify Bruce Carter if in a future month, or Pete Smith if in the current month. Northern California teams are each charged a $30 per game referee fee. For games with teams from outside of California, the home team is charged $60 per game. Clubs are billed in December for the coming season and fees are due at that time. If the Society does not provide referees for all matches paid, the Club receives a refund. Clubs with overdue fees will not be provided referees. For your current referee fee status contact Jim Crenshaw. Referee Pricing for Tournaments The charge for referee services at Tournaments is as follows: Guideline No two tournaments are the same. Number of games, length of games, all vary. Where there is an eight team tournament, referee charges will be equal to the entry fee of one team. At present this is the upper limit, the maximum charge. So a twelve team tournament's charge is also equal to one teams entry fee. Your honesty is implicit here. We trust you! If a tournament had less than eight teams, say six teams, the charge will be pro rata (e.g. 75% of a teams entry fee). A four team tournament would attract a charge of 50% of a team's entry fee. These charges can be adjusted at the discretion of the referee society, for extenuating circumstances. Delinquent Club Fees The Society's position, which the Northern California Rugby Union supports, is that any home team which is delinquent on their fees forfeits the match. If we have a referee available we may cover the match, for the benefit of the visiting team, but the home team will be reported as the loser of the match regardless of the outcome. If your club is in arrears with the Referees Society, any games that are played, are subject to forfeit even if you win the game. This may harm your chances of advancing in this season's championships. A Northern California ref ready for the opening kickoff:
This page last updated 05/31/05
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