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.
4. 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.
5. The athletic teams shall not have contests elsewhere than upon the university grounds
with any teams except those from other institutions of learning.
6. 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 faculty authority.
7. Before any student can 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 his application from the Committee. It shall be the duty
of the Faculty Athletic Committee to have the executive officers of the University endorse
such application to the effect that the applicant is a registered student of the University.
8. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Committee on Athletics 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.
9. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Committee on Athletics, 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.
10. No student shall participate in any intercollegiate football, baseball, basketball
or track contest during his first college year, and in no case shall a student be eligible for
these teams unless he shall have been a resident student for at least six months.
11. No person who has participated in intercollegiate football, baseball, basketball
or track contests for four sessions, consecutive or not, is eligible; provided, that his total
time of participation in these sports shall not include more than five college years.
12. No student who is receiving from the University remuneration for teaching or
administrative services shall be eligible for the university teams.
13. 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.
14. 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.[1]
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. The football team is permitted to play games only on the home grounds of one of
the contestants, with the exception of the Thanksgiving Day game with the University of
North Carolina in Richmond, which may be continued until such time as can be agreed
upon by the authorities of the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia.
19. "Training Tables" for football, baseball, basketball and track teams are hereby
abolished.
20. No student of this university shall be eligible for any athletic team who has
played upon, or been a member or substitute member of any of the professional or league
teams named in Classes A, B, C, and D, in the publication of the American Sports
Company.
To the list of professional teams thus proscribed shall be added all league teams in
any State or States, which the leading university of such State or States declares professional,
and from which it debars its own players.
21. The term "college" as used in the Faculty Regulations Concerning Athletics is
hereby interpreted to mean any college named in Table 28 of the Report of the U. S.
Commissioner of Education of 1902, which has not less than 150 male students of at
least collegiate grade recorded in the catalogue of the institution in question as students
of the session preceding the applicant's entrance into this university.
In case such catalogue fails to distinguish between students of collegiate and preparatory
grade, the president of the college concerned shall be requested to render or to
authorize an official statement as to the number of college students.
22. The term "substitute" is interpreted to mean a student who has taken part in
an intercollegiate contest.
23. The term "general conformity," as used in the Faculty Regulations, is interpreted
by the Faculty to mean conformity in regard to period of residence, maximum period of
eligibility and amateur standing.
