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REGULATIONS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY CONCERNING
ATHLETICS.

• 1. The Athletic Council 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.

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

• 5. 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, and must not be on probation (See page 152).

• 6. Before any student can take part in any intercollegiate contest, he shall
  make application in a prescribed form in writing to the Executive Committee
  of the Athletic Council and secure the endorsed approval of his
  application from the committee. It shall be the duty of the Executive
  Committee of the Athletic Council to have the executive officers of the
  University endorse such application to the effect that the applicant is
  eligible under Rule 5.

• 7. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee of the Athletic Council
  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.

• 8. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee of the Athletic Council,
  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.

• 9. No student who is receiving from the University remuneration for teaching
  or administrative services shall be eligible for the university teams.

• 10. It shall be the duty of the President of the Athletic Association, the
  Executive Committee of that Association, the Graduate Manager, 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.

• 11. No coach or trainer of any athletic team shall be employed without the
  sanction of the Athletic Council.

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• 12. 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, nor more than eight days' leave
  of absence during any one term.

• 13. 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.

• 14. The football team is permitted to play games only on the home grounds
  of one of the contestants.

• 15. 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.