In Google Books, the characters of “X High School varsity football team” show considerable variation in initial capitalization. The vast majority capitalize ‘X High School’ (presumably because the authors recognize that they are dealing with a proper name). Deadrat’s answer implies, most then split between the all-lowercase for varsity football team and all-initial-caps for Varsity Football team. ” But one Google Books result opts for ” Window Rock High School Varsity Football team ” and another for ” Vallejo High School’s Varsity football team…. ”

” I couldn’t capitalize “varsity football team. I wouldn’t capitalize “varsity football team.” The basketball team is certainly an offshoot of an agency that has a proper name—say, Francis X. Bushman High School. Why not “Francis X.” Bushman High School soccer left field fence, “Francis X. Bushman High School recycling bins outside the lunch room”? Those are identifiable entities associated with the school. too.

The word varsity began (around 1666) as an abbreviation/altered spelling of university, and some examples from the early 1900s retain the apostrophe at the end of v:’varsity 1.

How is Varsity, Football and/or Team a style issue that every person who is free to act on personal preference gets to choose without reference to what others do. In a word, Varsity is a style issue. Do you think a typical faculty member is not a “varsity football team”?

Generally speaking, the major words in a formal title are capitalized, but there seems to be no consensus in this case. What gives this copy of a 1997 Louisiana varsity football, varsity basketball or special teams ruling?

Both of these see like formal enough venues to provide guidance, yet both take different typographical stands.