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Alright then, name a team that plays hard year in and year out but never crosses the line and plays dirty.

Dutch Fork High school girls

I have a theory that from the perspective of the majority of observers, the main difference between a team that plays dirty and one that plays hard is the color of their jerseys.

Coach Chass is absolutely right. There was a famous study done in the 1950s based on a particularly rough football game between Princeton and Dartmouth.

"After showing a film of the game, Princeton students ‘saw’ the Dartmouth team make over twice as many rule violations as were seen by Dartmouth students. The researchers interpreted this as a manifestation of selective group perception. They interpreted these results overall as indicating that, when encountering a mix of occurrences as complex as a football game, we experience primarily those events that fulfill a familiar pattern and have a personal relevance to us."

Read more: http://www.experiment-resources.com/selective-group-perception.html#ixzz1Ijqru5k2

In other words as parents, coaches, players, and fans we are very unlikely to "see the same game" if we are aligned with opposite teams.

Leave it to an Ivy leauge school to conduct a study on what everyone already knows

Wonder how the numbers turn out if you run groups of refs thru the same sessions?

Which is another factor/question in the whole dirty vs. hard story

Do some schools/coaches push the players to play to the whistle (foul type)/yellow card and then to back down after the refs show a lack of tolerance for that type of play, and of course if he refs lets it go then the coches/players play harder trying to find the limit?

Well said!

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