Article VII.
General Code. Section 1. Post Season Games. The members of this
Conference agree with the recommendation of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association that member institutions play no post-season games in any
intercollegiate sport.
Section 2. Freshman Teams. Freshman teams shall be composed of
members of the freshman class only, and who shall not compete as such
for more than one year, and shall be eligible under the rules of this Conference,
except the one-year rule.
Section 3. Training Table and Training Quarters. No member of this
Conference is permitted to maintain a training table for any intercollegiate
team.
Section 4. Preliminary Training. There shall be no preliminary training
prior to September 10 or the opening of the college.
Section 5. Contests with Non-Conference Members. No Conference Institution
shall compete with any non-conference institution in conference territory,
of similar rank athletically, that is, one which competes with any
member of the Conference upon the basis of athletic equality, unless both
compete under the rules of eligibility of the Conference. A list of such institutions
shall be determined from year to year at the annual meeting.
Section 6. Before any student can compete in any intercollegiate contest
the faculty chairman of the Athletic Committee of his Conference Institution
shall certify his eligibility to the Chairman of the Executive Committee.
All lists shall be made on blanks furnished by the Secretary and
such blanks shall have printed on their face the rules of eligibility of the
Conference and also a certificate in the following form, which certificate
shall be signed by the Registrar of the Institution, who certifies to the competitor's
eligibility on a scholastic basis, and by the Faculty Chairman of
the Athletic Committee who certifies to the competitor's eligibility on the
basis of the Conference Rules:
"We certify that the following men are eligible according to the rules
of eligibility of the Southern Intercollegiate Conference and the scholastic
requirements of (member institution)."
