Talk:Varsity letter

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I would like to know how many programs there are out there that high school students cannot receive a varsity letter unless they play a specific number of games. A varsity letter was awarded to those who participated in a high school sport by being an active memeber on the team. This particular school does not award varstiy letters for players who have not played more than half of the games, and were made to sign a letter indicating that they would only play during tournaments if at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.136.26.228 (talk) 02:34, 15 November 2005‎ (UTC)

I don't know how many schools do this. My old high school (25 years ago) had a policy on the books that you had to play in 3 football games (out of 9) to win a letter. But the actual policy was that every member of the team got one, the written policy just hadn't been updated. I believe that it is common to award every member of the team a letter - standout players have ample opportunites for additional awards. My school awarded a block "E" to athletes and a script "E" to people who participated in non-athletic activities - band, choir, etc.--RLent 19:55, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Truth is, it's a totally capricious award that can take any shape or form. Avoid any of these distinctions in the article, because almost any of them will be wrong in a different district (none of what Lent said is true at mine, for example). ALTON .ıl 05:05, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Spam masquerading as references

I have removed all the flickr links that were used as references, because they then led the reader to a company that produces these patches. Please be vigilant to spam in all its guises. -- role^player 17:33, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

VLAS

Who is VLAS? It says "the earliest example that VLAS could find". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.23.109.100 (talk) 22:07, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

And what is a 'V-net sweater'? (Is this a type-o - 'V-neck' - or is some Americanism?

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Promotion

I removed the part where it claimed that some are made by hand and some by machine, and that it's a "commonality" that those made by hand are better than "low quality" machine made ones, because it smacks of self promotion by someone who happens to sell hand-sewn varsity letters. "Low quality"? Maybe generally lower quality, but that's not necessarily the same as "low quality", and it's a hell of a generalization in any case. More importantly, it's not in either one of the references given at the bottom of the page (interestingly, the first reference covers about half the information on the page, and the second appears to be completely worthless, consisting of a shot of a male model in a "baseball jacket" and a caption saying how fashionable "baseball jackets" can be. So it makes one wonder where the rest of the information in the article came from).70.20.40.28 (talk) 05:34, 7 January 2016 (UTC)