An alcohol ban and a law requiring women to cover their hair have been powerful hindrances.
Others, like the alcohol ban, seemed more broadly aimed.
But today soldiers seem to be used to the alcohol ban.
In 2009, with the alcohol ban, race attendance dropped to 77,850 after topping 100,000 for eight consecutive years.
He championed an alcohol ban in the community, which was approved in 2008.
It lasted about three hours, and the alcohol ban of the previous year had been relaxed.
But we are all grown men and the reality is that we decided not to impose an alcohol ban.
There have always been ways around the alcohol ban.
Why isn't there a curfew and an alcohol ban?
"We decided it would be better for our team, help us focus," Hightower said of the self-imposed alcohol ban.