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REGULATIONS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY CONCERNING
ATHLETICS.

1. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is intrusted with the general oversight
of athletics, and is authorized to forbid any features in these exercises
which endanger the health or morals of the participants, and to foster the
true spirit of amateur sport among them.

2. No student shall play upon the university athletic teams except after
physical examination by the Director of the Gymnasium (or by a responsible
expert officer of the university acting in his stead and by his request) and with
the approbation of the Director.

3. Only students who act as regular or substitute members of the Athletic
teams will be granted leaves of absence to accompany them on trips away from
the university, except during vacation and holidays.

4. Special reports may be made to the president from time to time by any
minor faculty with respect to the class-standing and progress in study of each
regular and substitute player on the athletic teams, and if the president and
such faculty are convinced that his class-standing is discreditable, such student
may be required to sever his connection with such team.

5. The athletic teams should not have contests elsewhere than upon the
university grounds with any except teams from other institutions of learning.

6. Before any student can become a member or substitute member of any
athletic team in the university and take part in any intercollegiate contest, he
shall make application in a prescribed form in writing to the Faculty Committee
on Athletics, and secure the endorsed approval of the committee to his application.
It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee to have the executive
officers of the university endorse such application to the effect that the applicant
is an unconditionally registered student of the university.

7. It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee to inquire into and make
a record of the athletic experiences of the applicant, and it shall be the duty
of the applicant to appear before the Committee and answer on his honor such
questions as the Committee may see fit to ask.

8. It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee, before it endorses an
application, to require a pledge in writing of the applicant certifying on his
honor that he has never accepted directly or indirectly remuneration, compensatory
gift, valuable consideration or the promise thereof for or on account
of his athletic services, and that he is in the proper and strict sense of the
word an amateur athlete.

9. No student who has been a member or a substitute member of a football
or baseball team of another college or university shall be permitted to become
a member of either team of this university during his first session; but in no
case shall such student be eligible for these teams at this university unless he
shall have been a student here at least five months. The above provision shall
also apply to all students who enter this university with less than 10 units.[1]

10. No person whose name appears in the catalogue list of officers of instruction
and administration of the university, and who receives remuneration therefrom,
shall be a member of any athletic team representing the university.

11. It shall be the duty of the President of the Athletic Association, the
Executive Committee of that Association, the Manager and the Captain of the
team concerned, the Director of the Gymnasium, the Associate Director of
Athletics, and the Treasurer of the Association, to furnish, on request, a statement
to the effect that each member of an athletic team is above their suspicion
as to his eligibility to represent the university as a proper amateur player, before
such player shall be allowed to take part in any contest.

12. No "coach," not an alumnus, and no "trainer," not an officer of the
university, shall be employed for the purpose of instructing or training any
athletic team in this university.[2]

13. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is authorized and instructed to
establish a maximum period after which a player on a team representing any
branch of athletic sport at this or any other university or college shall be
ineligible to become a member of any athletic team of this university.

14. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is directed to assume responsible
charge of the details of the Athletic situation and to permit the playing of
intercollegiate games with such colleges only as express a general conformity
with the code of rules adopted by this faculty.

15. The members of any athletic team may be allowed not more than eight
days leave of absence from the university for the purpose of engaging in
athletic contests; but no student who is a member of more than one athletic
team shall be allowed more than sixteen days leave of absence during the entire
session for such purpose.