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 on 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 Table" 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 United States 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.
