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Article VII.
General Code. Section 1. Post-Season Games. The football season shall
close the Saturday following Thanksgiving and no member of this Conference
shall engage in any intercollegiate football game after that date.
Section 2. Freshman Teams. Freshman teams shall be composed of members
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.
The freshman football teams of this Conference shall be allowed to play
only five games.
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 the first Monday in September, and no Conference institution shall defray
any part of the living expenses of any student undergoing preliminary
training.
No freshman students shall be allowed to assemble for practice before the
opening of 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. A report
of eligible football players shall be made by October 1, but may be added to
later. 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 Conference and the scholastic requirements of (member
institution)."
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