1. The Athletic Council 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.
4. The athletic teams shall not have contests elsewhere than upon the university
grounds with any teams except those from other institutions of
learning.
5. To be eligible for an intercollegiate athletic contest an applicant must be
a bona fide student who is pursuing a course of at least ten hours of undergraduate
work or a course of study certified by the proper faculty authority,
and must not be on probation. (See page 167.)
6. Before any student can take part in any intercollegiate contest, he shall
make application in a prescribed form in writing to the Executive Committee
of the Athletic Council and secure the endorsed approval of his
application from the committee. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee
of the Athletic Council to have the executive officers of the University
endorse such application to the effect that the applicant is eligible under
Rule 5.
7. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee of the Athletic Council
to inquire into and make a record of the athletic experiences of the applicant,
who shall 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 Executive Committee of the Athletic Council,
before it endorses an application, to require of the applicant a written pledge,
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 is receiving from the University remuneration for teaching
or administrative services shall be eligible for the university teams.
10. It shall be the duty of the President of the Athletic Association, the Executive
Committee of that Association, the Graduate Manager, 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.
11. No coach or trainer of any athletic team shall be employed without the
sanction of the Athletic Council.
12. 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, nor more than eight days' leave of absence
during any one term.
13. Not more than four days' leave of absence from the University shall be
given to those First-Year Athletic teams which are regularly organized by
the General Athletic Association.
14. The football team is permitted to play games only on the home grounds
of one of the contestants.
15. Special reports may be made to the President from time to time by any
departmental 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.
