Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-177.141.186.165-20140722094715/@comment-24744701-20140723032833

DManCO wrote: A "freshman", in the U.S. is typically only 14 or 15. I myself was of the 14 year-old variety (my mother managed to slip me into school just on the edge of the threshold). Yeah, we had some big freshmen too, not many, but we did have them. But there wasn't much mingling. For example, our school had Freshmen, Junior Varsity and Varsity in most major sports, including lacrosse (we also had them segregated into boys and girls teams). Thus a freshmen would never be on the same team as the juniors and seniors. It was a rare privilege for a junior to be on a Varsity team, a sign of major talent! But there was not a single sophmore I can remember being on a Varsity team.

So the idea of freshmen Berserkers just seems a little silly to me. Most of the actual freshmen were still coming out of their growth spurts. Yeah, In England or in British-Curriculum schools the sports teams are divided into age groups such as U-13s U-15s or U-18s. The clearest example of this is in Rugby or any other contact sports.

I too was a "freshman" at 14 (born in August).