varsity
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Jordan — are making another try to play varsity football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Plenty of other readers also made the case that real rivalries came with varsity jackets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
He led the Friars’ varsity football team with 39 catches for 457 yards and eight touchdowns in 10 games in the fall and plans to be back in pads his senior year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Football can teach many life lessons and no one knows that better than Jazmin Gamble, the new varsity head coach at Hawthorne High.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
The varsity laughed behind him as they continued to shoot layups.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The 1969 team was 2-4, a respectable enough record, though five opponents were the junior varsities of small colleges like Wheaton and Valparaiso.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011
Last week, after Washington's junior varsity and freshmen had beaten the East's best, seven varsities pulled out on the calm Hudson to row four miles down stream.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1929 and 1930 he had been on losing Yale varsities.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And the varsities won't change till public opinion blows them to bits," added Martin.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
And they don't get the pick of the varsities either: the standard keeps going down.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
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