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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)."