NCAA-where to attach the US Flag

ocreferee · #1 (**permalink**) Wed Nov 26, 2003, 07:40pm

Ok, I just want to make sure I am right since my first college game is Saturday night (D3 womens)... The US flag is on the left sleeve 1 inch above the black cuff, right?

Thanks.
OCReferee

mick · #2 (**permalink**) Wed Nov 26, 2003, 09:04pm

No. Read this.

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/baske...1018_flag.html

...Or this.

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/baske...flag_memo.html

[Edited by mick on Nov 26th, 2003 at 08:08 PM]

Rock'nRef · #3 (**permalink**) Sun Nov 30, 2003, 10:23pm

and don't forget....

The stars go toward your heart.

I was wearing a new shirt with "pre-sewn" patches during a game recently and was notified after the game by a veteran that the stars should always be closest to your heart. Unfortunatly, mine was not. Live and learn..

JRutledge · #4 (**permalink**) Sun Nov 30, 2003, 11:10pm

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Originally posted by Rock'nRef
and don't forget....

The stars go toward your heart.

I was wearing a new shirt with "pre-sewn" patches during a game recently and was notified after the game by a veteran that the stars should always be closest to your heart. Unfortunatly, mine was not. Live and learn..

The flag goes on the left sleeve. Unless your assignor tells you something else, that is the way the NCAA wants it. It says all that on Mick's post from the NCAA directly.

Peace

Mregor · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 01, 2003, 11:16am

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Originally posted by Rock'nRef
and don't forget....

The stars go toward your heart.

I was wearing a new shirt with "pre-sewn" patches during a game recently and was notified after the game by a veteran that the stars should always be closest to your heart. Unfortunatly, mine was not. Live and learn..

Help me out here. If you are wearing the flag on the left sleeve, how could the stars not be "closest to your heart" without being upside down?

Mregor

mick · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 01, 2003, 11:18am

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Originally posted by Mregor

Quote:

Originally posted by Rock'nRef
and don't forget....

The stars go toward your heart.

I was wearing a new shirt with "pre-sewn" patches during a game recently and was notified after the game by a veteran that the stars should always be closest to your heart. Unfortunatly, mine was not. Live and learn..

Help me out here. If you are wearing the flag on the left sleeve, how could the stars not be "closest to your heart" without being upside down?

Mregor

Inside out.
...Or nearest the back of the heart.

ocreferee · #7 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 01, 2003, 11:27am

Well I got my flag on correctly and actually called a good game. Thanks..

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Help me out here. If you are wearing the flag on the left sleeve, how could the stars not be "closest to your heart" without being upside down?

The flag looks like it is waving backwards as you move. Blue field to the front of your body.

OCReferee

bob jenkins · #8 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 01, 2003, 12:37pm

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Originally posted by Mregor

Quote:

Originally posted by Rock'nRef
and don't forget....

The stars go toward your heart.

I was wearing a new shirt with "pre-sewn" patches during a game recently and was notified after the game by a veteran that the stars should always be closest to your heart. Unfortunatly, mine was not. Live and learn..

Help me out here. If you are wearing the flag on the left sleeve, how could the stars not be "closest to your heart" without being upside down?

Mregor

Most flags have the blue field to the upper left of the flag.

Flags designed to be worn on the right sleeve have the field in the upper right -- so it looks like it's flying from a pole as you run forward.

Mark Dexter · #9 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 01, 2003, 08:12pm

Quote:

Originally posted by Rock'nRef
and don't forget....

The stars go toward your heart.

I was wearing a new shirt with "pre-sewn" patches during a game recently and was notified after the game by a veteran that the stars should always be closest to your heart. Unfortunatly, mine was not. Live and learn..

Um - stars are towards the front of the body (I guess that's closest to the heart). That was developed from the tradition of painting flags on airplanes with the blue field facing the front of the plane which, of course, comes from how a flag naturally flies on board a naval vessel.