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EXTRACTS FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE SOUTHERN INTERCOLLEGIATE
CONFERENCE.
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.
For the purpose of this rule, a Freshman is a student who enters the Institution
from a High School or a Preparatory School.
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)."
Article XII.
Rules of Eligibility.
The following rules apply to all sports:
Rule 1. Bona Fide Students. No one shall participate in any intercollegiate
contest unless he is a bona fide matriculated student regularly enrolled and doing
full work as defined by the regulations of the institution in which he is enrolled.
A student in special agricultural or other special courses who does not present
the full entrance credits is not eligible under this rule.
Rule 2. No person shall participate in intercollegiate athletics at an institution
until after the expiration of twelve months from the date of his matriculation
there, and until he shall have completed the scholastic requirements of that institution.
Rule 3. Attendance. No student having been a member of any athletic
months of the college year shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
contest thereafter until he shall have been in attendance six calendar months.
Note.—Attendance during Summer Sessions is not counted as "attendance"
for the purpose of this rule.
Rule 4. Migrant Students. (a) No person who has participated in any
Intercollegiate contest in any branch of sport as a member of any college team
shall be permitted to participate in any Intercollegiate contest in the same sport
as a member of a team of any other Institution in this Conference.
(b) Students who have pursued courses of study at one university or
college but who have not participated in any intercollegiate contest, shall be
eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics at another institution, but only
when they have satisfied the conditions as set forth in Rule 2—the one-year-residence
rule.
Rule 5. Limit of Participation. Participation in intercollegiate athletics
shall be limited to three years, over a five-year period, counting from the time
of first matriculation. Participation in any intercollegiate sport in any college
year shall constitute one year of athletic participation.
Rule 6. Compensation. (a) No person who receives any compensation
from his institution for services rendered by way of regular instruction shall
be allowed to participate in intercollegiate contests.
(b) No person shall be allowed to participate in any intercollegiate contest
who receives any gift, remuneration, or pay for his services on a college team.
(c) No person shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
contest who has ever used or is using his knowledge of athletics or his athletic
or gymnastic skill for gain.
Note.—This rule does not apply to any person who has work in connection
with a playground or a summer camp where the requirements do not call for
a man with technical preparation in physical training.
Rule 7. Summer Baseball. No athlete in any Conference Institution shall
participate as a member of any summer baseball team without the consent of
his Faculty Committee on Athletics; and such a player when given permission
to play on such team shall submit at the re-opening of the school term to his
Faculty Committee, a certified statement that he has not received pecuniary
compensation therefor.
Rule 8. No student shall be eligible to participate in intercollegiate contests
if he has played on any baseball team which is a member of an organized league
operating under the National agreement and under supervision of the National
Baseball Commission.
To the list of professional teams thus proscribed shall be added all the
teams in any state which the Conference Institutions of such state declare professional
and from which they debar their own players.
Rule 9. Assumed Name. No person shall take part in any intercollegiate
contest under an assumed name.
Rule 10. Delinquency in Studies. No student who is found delinquent
in his studies by the faculty shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
contest.
Resolution Defining Retroactive.
Be it Resolved, that men who shall have regularly matriculated at any
college by January 1, 1922, shall have all rights and privileges accorded them
which the present athletic rules of that college accord them, shall have their
eligibility judged by those rules and shall be allowed to finish their athletic
careers under those rules except that the right to play in intercollegiate contests
after transference from one college to another shall cease January 1, 1922.
Transfer after that time shall cause the loss of this privilege.
This rule shall in no way be construed to allow participation of a student
as a summer baseball player after January 1, 1922, on any other basis than as
set forth in Rules 7 and 8 of Article XII.
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