[Mountaineer]

[quote=WestMichBlue]

"For individual players, uniform sleeve lengths may vary. However, sleeves of each individual player shall be approximately the same length and shall not be ragged, frayed or slit".[/quote/

"Uniform sleeve lengths may vary." May vary from what? From one individual play on a team to another individual player on the same team? Or from the left arm to the right arm of an same individual player.

Does "may vary" indicate that you have permission to be different? Or does it mean that sleeve lengths do not need to be precisely the same length within a tolerance of (1/4") (1/32") (.0001")?

If it means they do not have to be precisely the same, does not the next sentence qualify that by saying, "Yes, you are allowed some varriance, but they must be approximately the same?"

I still say that you must go back to the 1970's when this rule was written (exactly as you see it in 2006) and ask yourself what were the rules makers trying to achieve. Remember that back then girls wore baseball uniforms - long sleeve shirts, pin-stripe pants, and stirrup sox.

Don't you think that as girls were starting to change uniforms, that the NFHS was trying to retain uniformity across the team? That they didn't want long sleeve and short sleeve mixed on the same team. Or do you really think they were worried about a girl taking pinking shears to one sleeve?

WMB

Nope, I think they were worried about not allowing girls to have different tastes. Cat wears long sleeves even in the most rigid heat - that's what she prefers. I am sure that no one else on the team wants to wear that. I think it is entirely permissible under the rule in question. I've seen kids want to wear a short sleeve on one arm and no sleeve on on the other. That is what is not allowed. The uniformity across the team is accomplished by the UNIFORM. I'm confused why there is no rule regarding sock lengths . . . I mean if uniformity is what they are after.