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Old Wed Nov 29, 2017, 08:32am
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
1) Team A is wearing uniforms with the letters "A M D G" about 1" tall right underneath the neckline on the back of the jersey (the letters are some acronym for the latin motto of the school or something). Legal?
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post
1...I think the rule here is ambiguous. It seems to imply that the lettering is only for team names/abbreviations or player names. AMGD appears to be something else and likely not legal with respect to that part of the rule. But then, ART 1 indicates that there are NO design restrictions in the neckline area. Does "design" include lettering or just patterning/coloring? But are letters just patterns? It seems to be illegal to me.
The NFHS pre-season PowerPoint makes it pretty clear that the lettering is only for team names or player names. There's a slide that shows a player with his/her initials in the shoulder panel and states that it's illegal. Why? I have no idea. It's perfectly fine to have a memorial patch there with initials. But I'm pretty confident that the lettering in Rich's question is illegal.

(How do I insert the Powerpoint slide into this message???)
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