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Page 356

ATHLETICS.

The Athletic Park contains twenty acres, and includes two athletic fields,
Lambeth Field and Lefevre Field. Two hundred thousand surface feet have
been perfectly graded, drained and fenced, for football, baseball, and track
work. This surface was completed at a cost of about fifty thousand dollars,
and involved the removal of forty-eight thousand cubic yards of earth. A concrete
stadium has been erected seating five thousand persons, and additional
wooden stands provide seating space for four thousand.

Intramural athletics are under the supervision of the Director of Physical
Training and his staff. Intercollegiate Athletics are under the special direction
of the General Athletic Association, a student organization whose object is
to encourage this phase of physical exercise. The faculty exercises a general
advisory control over all athletics, endeavoring to foresee and avert dangerous
tendencies or excess in physical exercise. The development of the general
policies of the University in athletics is intrusted to the Athletic Council—a body
composed of three representatives of the student body, three representatives of
the Alumni Association, three representatives of the General Faculty and the
President of the University. The action of this body is subject to ratification
by the General Faculty.

The Executive Committee of the Athletic Council, composed of one of its
student members, one of its alumni members, its three faculty members and the
President of the University are responsible for the administration of any laws
or regulations governing intercollegiate athletics whether originating from the
Athletic Council, the faculty or from any Conference of which the University
may be a member.

The University of Virginia is a member of the Southern Conference.

REGULATIONS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY CONCERNING
ATHLETICS

  • 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 215.)


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  • 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 General 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.



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