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Old Thu May 03, 2012, 09:24am
Rob1968 Rob1968 is offline
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Numbers, please . . .

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Originally Posted by Steven Tyler View Post
It seems like years ago in high school the home team wore even numbers not higher than ending with the digit 4, and the visiting team wore odd numbers not ending higher than the digit 5. I suppose it had something to do with the numbers of fingers on each hand. I guess you couldn't ref if your nickname was Nubsy back in the day:..................

I remember in an old yearbook photo before my time, the players wore 11, 22, 33, etc.
In the sixties, we wore evens at home and odds on the road. It was said to help the officials get the calls right -- I guess the full calf-covering socks, all of which had to match for members of each team, were worn for the same reason.
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