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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 eligible 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.