NFHS Ruling on long sleeve shirts

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Originally Posted by Tio

I was observing a Boys HS varsity game last night and a player had a long-sleeve undershirt on.

What is the ruling on long sleeved shirts? What color restrictions are there?

The jersey was purple with a black undershirt. I asked the crew about this during the postgame evaluation and they did not seem to clearly understand the rule.

Long sleeved shirts are allowed although they must be made of compression material. They must also match the dominant color of the jersey (ie white jersey needs white undershirt; black jersey requires black undershirt.) in your case as described it is illegal for color reasons.

I asked one of our varsity officials about illegal undershirts (red jersey, black undershirt)during a JV game between my soph. Game and his V game. He quoted to me the sleeve color rules. had to show him in the book. Not sure if he enforced it during his game as I had to leave.