High schools and ages

[hypotenuse]

Just curious. I am old enough to remember when hockey programs listed each player's DOB and High School. Now it just says something like "last team." I know it is now "market" for players to have a year or so of postgrad experience, but can anyone shed light on how this evolved? Would Dick Bertrand (as player, not coach) be out of place these days arriving at 24? Is hockey the only college sport where this is
done? Thanks!

[upprdeck]

I noticed it was not in this years game program as well. Maybe another layer of protection for the kids identity being stolen..

I remember if you go look at old CFB games how they used to show DOB when the kids bios popped up.. that was at least thru the 70's

[hypotenuse]

I hadn't thought of the identity theft possibility. My assumption was that schools were embarrassed to reveal that they had freshmen hockey players who were the age of typical seniors.

[adamw]

It's definitely for security reasons. Not that it helps, and I don't think it's worth the bother - the DOBs are out there, on Elite Prospects, College Hockey News, etc...

It's definitely not because anyone is embarrassed about ages. College hockey has been this way forever, to varying degrees, and no one has ever been embarrassed, nor should be.

[marty]

It's definitely for security reasons. Not that it helps, and I don't think it's worth the bother - the DOBs are out there, on Elite Prospects, College Hockey News, etc...

Almost all the Medicare scammers calling me from Kolkata and Dhaka seem to know my DOB.  This in spite of the fact that I've told them repeatedly that it's 2/29/53.

I wish there was an elegant way to give an approximate age for the players by stating something akin to high school graduation year.