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ATHLETICS.

The Athletic Park contains twenty acres, and includes two athletic fields,
Lambeth Field and Lefevre Field. Two hundred thousand surface feet have
been perfectly graded, drained and fenced, for football, baseball, and track
work. This surface was completed at a cost of about fifty thousand dollars,
and involved the removal of forty-eight thousand cubic yards of earth. A
concrete stadium has been erected seating five thousand persons, and additional
wooden stands provide seating space for three thousand.

Intramural athletics are under the supervision of the Director of Physical
Training and his staff. Intercollegiate Athletics are under the special direction
of the General Athletic Association, a student organization whose object
is to encourage this phase of physical exercise. The faculty exercises a
general advisory control over all athletics, endeavoring to foresee and avert
dangerous tendencies or excess in physical exercise. The development of
the general policies of the University in athletics is intrusted to the Athletic
Council—a body composed of three representatives of the student body, three
representatives of the General Alumni Association, three representatives of
the General Faculty and the President of the University. The action of this
body is subject to ratification by the General Faculty.

The Executive Committee of the Athletic Council, composed of one of
its student members, one of its alumni members, its three faculty members
and the President of the University are responsible for the administration of
any laws or regulations governing intercollegiate athletics whether originating
from the Athletic Council, the faculty or from any Conference of which the
University may be a member.

The University of Virginia is a member of the Southern Intercollegiate
Conference.