Article VII
General Code
Section 1. Football Season. No member of the Conference shall engage
in any football game after the expiration of its season except by 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.
No freshman who has been a student at any other college shall be eligible to
compete on a freshman team of a Southern Conference institution.
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 pay for the maintenance of 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.
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 he must fill out an eligibility blank furnished by the Conference
which blank shall be kept on file by the Faculty Chairman of Athletics
subject to the command of the President of the Southern Conference.
Section 7. Rules. All rules of the Conference shall apply to all intercollegiate
sports.
Section 8. Scholarship and Loan Funds. All scholarship and loan funds
for which athletes are eligible must be administered by a University officer or
committee that usually administers such funds.
