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From the NCAA rules
Art. 1. The referee shall not permit any player to wear equipment that in his or her judgment is dangerous to other players.
Art. 5. Equipment that could cut or cause an injury to another player shall be
prohibited, without respect to whether the equipment is hard. Excessively
long fingernails shall be prohibited.
Art. 6. Equipment used shall be appropriate for basketball.
Art. 7. Head decorations, head wear and jewelry are illegal. Headbands no wider than 2 inches made of non-abrasive, unadorned (except for the manufacturerÂ’s
logo, which shall meet the size restrictions of Rule 3-6), singlecolorcloth, elastic, fiber, soft leather, pliable plastic or rubber shall be legal.
FROM PIAA website in 2002 This was the official interp from back the from NFHS as well
RUBBER BANDS
Rubber bands are legal to wear to control the hair. They
are illegal as decorative items (i.e. wearing on the wrist,
arms, etc.).
As far as I am concerned the bands create a danger that is not normally part of playing ball. I believe that allowing players to wear them is imprudent. The Xcountry guys should have told them to take them off before they raced..and I am not sure they would be too terribly dangerous in Xcountry but in Basketball and Football, Volleyball, etc they need to be left at the sideline
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