Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council also approved recommendations to give a major award to any manager who receives three or more minor letters, and to allow the swimming team to count the Brown meet towards a letter...
...have tried to make a distinction between the man with four varsity letters in minor sports and the man with four jayvee letters," said Frank H. White '55, president of the Athletic Council, in explaining the slight modifications. "The recommendation as submitted to us would have allowed a man with nothing but jayvee letters to earn a varsity H, since jayvee letters are counted as minor letters. We feel that only a man who makes a varsity team should be awarded a major...
...plan, as it stands now, would award a major H in minor colors to any athlete who earns four minor varsity letters, two of which must be in the same sport. Another plan is being considered for the four-year jayvee man, whereby he will be awarded a major sport sweater with a minor insignia...
Referring to the recommendation concerning managers, White said, "We agreed wholeheartedly that a manager who has earned letters in three minor sports should be awarded a major H. A manager works hard, often serving as an apprentice for a year before he gets a chance to earn his letter. The manager who earns three minor sport letters works just as hard, if not harder, than the manager in a major sport, and we feel that he should get equal recognition...
...Three minor changes, however, will probably be approved. The first would eliminate the four minute rule which allows players taken out in a half to reenter in the last four minutes of the same half. Instead, a player who starts a quarter would be permitted to leave and reenter once during that period. Players would then be able to get a breather, and specialists, such as conversion kickers, could be used...