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Old Sun Dec 28, 2014, 10:06am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
I observed a boys high school varsity game yesterday. Home team had white uniforms (jerseys, and shorts). White jerseys had white numbers with a thin (1/4 inch?) black border.

As an observer, I found these numbers to be very difficult to read, and was glad that I was not officiating the game. I figured that these had to be illegal, so I looked it up and was confused by the rule (below):

3-4-3-E: No more than three colors may be used on the number. The style of the
number must be clearly visible and conform to one of the following:
1. A solid contrasting color with no more than two solid color 1/4-inch
borders around the entire number. If the team jersey color is used as a
border, it must be counted as one of the allowed colors.
2. The team jersey color itself when bordered with not more than two 1/4-
inch solid border(s) contrasting with the team jersey color.

3. A solid contrasting color with a "shadow" trim of a contrasting color on
part of the number not to exceed 1/2 inch in width and may be used
with one 1/4-inch border.

Are these number colors legal according to Article 2 above ("team jersey color itself")? I can't believe that the NFHS would allow such difficult-to-read numbers. Every time the officials called a foul they had to look twice to make sure that they had the correct number.
The two parts in red seem to be describing the same thing.

Legal.

The numbers might be hard to read, but the rule isn't (at least as it applies here).
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