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REGULATIONS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY
CONCERNING ATHLETICS.

1. The Faculty Committee on Athletics 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, except during vacation and holidays.

4. Special reports may be made to the President from time to time by any
minor 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.

5. The athletic teams shall not have contests elsewhere than upon the University
grounds with any except teams from other institutions of learning.

6. Before any student can become a member or substitute member of any
athletic team in the University and take part in any intercollegiate contest, he shall
make application in a prescribed form in writing to the Faculty Committee on
Athletics, and secure the endorsed approval of the committee to his application. It
shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee to have the executive officers of the
University endorse such application to the effect that the applicant is an unconditionally
registered student of the University.

7. It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee to inquire into and make a
record of the athletic experiences of the applicant, and it shall be the duty of the
applicant to 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 Athletic Committee, before it endorses an application,
to require a pledge in writing of the applicant 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 has been a member or a substitute member of a football
or baseball team of another college or university shall be permitted to become a
member of either team of this University during his first session; but in no case
shall such student be eligible for these teams at this University unless he shall
have been a student here at least five months. The above provision shall also apply
to all students who enter this University without entrance certificate or examination.[12]

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10. No person whose name appears in the catalogue list of officers of instruction
and administration of the University, and who receives remuneration therefrom shall
be a member of any athletic team representing the University.

11. It shall be the duty of the President of the Athletic Association, the Executive
Committee of that Association, 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.

12. No "coach," not an alumnus, and no "trainer," not an officer of the
University, shall be employed for the purpose of instructing or training any athletic
team in this University.[13]

13. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is authorized and instructed to establish
a maximum period after which a player on a team representing any branch of
athletic sport at this or any other University or college shall be ineligible to become
a member of any athletic team of this University.

14. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is directed to assume responsible charge
of the details of the Athletic situation and to permit the playing of intercollegiate
games with such colleges only as express a general conformity with the Code of
Rules adopted by this Faculty.

15. 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.