Uniform Issues

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Originally Posted by bob jenkins

1) Team A is wearing uniforms with the letters "A M D G" about 1" tall right underneath the neckline on the back of the jersey (the letters are some acronym for the latin motto of the school or something). Legal?

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

1...I think the rule here is ambiguous. It seems to imply that the lettering is only for team names/abbreviations or player names. AMGD appears to be something else and likely not legal with respect to that part of the rule. But then, ART 1 indicates that there are NO design restrictions in the neckline area. Does "design" include lettering or just patterning/coloring? But are letters just patterns? It seems to be illegal to me.

The NFHS pre-season PowerPoint makes it pretty clear that the lettering is only for team names or player names. There's a slide that shows a player with his/her initials in the shoulder panel and states that it's illegal. Why? I have no idea. It's perfectly fine to have a memorial patch there with initials. But I'm pretty confident that the lettering in Rich's question is illegal.

(How do I insert the Powerpoint slide into this message???)