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Originally Posted by Andy
It's a optional state association adoption.
I have heard (unofficially) it's because NFHS does not want to make it mandatory and cause schools to incur an additional cost to put it on their fields.
Not very consistent with some other rule changes in other sports that necessitate some type of cost to upgrade or change existing facilities.
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No reason for that to surprise you; they actually made the statement that they wouldn't mandate chin straps for cost reasons (at about $1.29 each) back when it was proposed.