General Code
Section 1. Post-Season Games. The football season shall close the second
Saturday following Thanksgiving and no member of this Conference shall engage
in any intercollegiate football game after that date except with the consent
of the Conference.
Section 2. Freshman Teams. Freshman teams shall be composed of members
of the freshman class only, 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.
The Freshman football teams of this Conference shall be allowed to play
only five games in any regular season.
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,
assembling of candidates or issuing of equipment prior to the first Monday in
September. Athletic associations of Southern Conference institutions may
bear the expense of food for men during preliminary training provided that
no such expenses shall begin prior to the first Monday in September nor prior
to fifteen days before the opening of the college session.
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 athletic rank, 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. Eligibility Certificates. Before any student can compete in any
intercollegiate contest, the faculty chairman of the Athletic Committee of his
Conference Institution shall certify the eligibility of football candidates 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 Conference and the scholastic requirements of
(member institution)."
Section 7. Rules. All rules of the Conference shall apply to all intercollegiate
sports.
