Apparatus for monitoring an athletic activity

An apparatus for officiating an American football game, characterized by being played by opposing teams for a plurality of quarter time periods and wherein each team alternates in executing a series of downs in an attempt to advance the football to score points, the apparatus comprising:

• (a) a housing adapted to be worn adjacent an official's wrist;
• (b) a first timer internal to said housing for counting a first predetermined period of time corresponding to a quarter time period of the football game;
• (c) a second timer internal to said housing for counting a second predetermined period of time corresponding to the time period in which a team must initiate a down;
• (d) an occurrence counter internal to said housing for registering a number representative of the cumulative total of downs executed in the series;
• (e) a first signalling device adapted to be worn on one of said official's fingers to initiate said first timer;
• (f) a second signalling device adapted to be worn on one of said official's fingers to control said second timer and said occurrence counter;
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• (g) a display internal to said housing for at least displaying the time remaining of said first predetermined period of time and for at least displaying said number representative of the cumulative total of downs executed in the series.

An apparatus for officiating an American football game, characterized by being played by opposing teams for a plurality of quarter time periods and wherein each team alternates in executing a series of downs in an attempt to advance the football to score points, the apparatus comprising:

• (a) a housing adapted to be worn adjacent an official's wrist;
• (b) a first timer internal to said housing for counting a first predetermined period of time corresponding to a quarter time period of the football game;
• (c) a second timer internal to said housing for counting a second predetermined period of time corresponding to the time period in which a team must initiate a down;
• (d) an occurrence counter internal to said housing for registering a number representative of the cumulative total of downs executed in the series;
• (e) a first signaling device to initiate said first timer;
• (f) a second signaling device to initiate said second timer and said occurrence counter;
• (g) a display internal to said housing for at least displaying the time remaining of said first predetermined period of time and for at least displaying said number representative of the cumulative total of downs executed in the series;
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• (h) at least one of the first and second signaling devices being displaced from said housing.