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 authority, and must not be on
probation. (See page 258.)
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.
