 | The University of Virginia record February 15, 1924 |  |
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
| William Alexander Lambeth, M.D., Ph.D. | Director of Physical Training |
| Henry Haden Lannigan | Associate Director of Athletics |
| James Porter Baker, Jr. | Instructor in Physical Training |
| Frederick Virginius Watkins | Instructor in Physical Training |
| Meredith Erskine Watkins | Instructor in Physical Training |
The method of instruction pursued does not follow blindly any so-called
system, but proper attention is given to all methods which in whole
or in part have proved useful or effective. The importance of individual
training is in every case recognized, especially where an examination discloses
the student's inability to pursue with safety or profit general or
concerted exercises.
Students are entitled, without cost, to a thorough physical examination
by the director, and are urged to avail themselves of this privilege
soon after they enter the University. The examination includes an accurate
measurement of the student's physical proportions, a careful examination
of the condition and action of the heart and lungs, and the
strength of the principal muscular groups. Upon the basis of the facts
thus ascertained, advice is given as to particular exercises and the use of
various developing appliances. The examination is repeated at intervals,
note is taken of any improvement, and new exercises are suggested.
In addition to individual work, daily instruction is given to classes
in light gymnastics—marching, figure-running, calisthenics, dumb-bells,
and clubs—adapted as nearly as possible to the needs of individuals of
varying age and physical condition. The exercises are gradual and progressive,
commencing with the simplest movements and proceeding to
others more complicated and difficult.
During the winter months instruction in gymnastics which require great
strength and agility is given to those who are fitted for it by previous training.
This work is terminated by an annual gymnastic tournament held usually in the
early part of March.
The faculty regulations on athletics require that members of the university
athletic teams shall give evidence of satisfactory physical condition by passing
in doubtful cases a strength test, in addition to the regular physical examination.
For members of the football teams, 1,300 points are required; for members of the
baseball team, 1,100 points.
The New Gymnasium.
The new Gymnasium to be completed early in 1924, is situated between
the athletic field and the university golf links, and offers facilities unsurpassed
in any American university. The main exercise room is 180 by 96 feet, with a
ten-foot running track gallery of twelve laps to the mile. There is also an
a gallery for spectators. A general locker room provides for 1700 full-length
steel lockers, with two shower rooms. There are also spacious locker rooms
and baths for home and visiting teams, as well as special rooms for boxing,
fencing, and wrestling, and three hand-ball courts. The administration wing
includes offices for the staff, examination rooms and a large lecture room.
For the course in Physical Training with credit value for degrees, see
page 159.
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 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.
EXTRACTS FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE SOUTHERN INTERCOLLEGIATE
CONFERENCE.
Article VII.
General Code. Section 1. Post Season Games. The members of this
Conference agree with the recommendation of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association that member institutions play no post-season games in any
intercollegiate sport.
Section 2. Freshman Teams. Freshman teams shall be composed of members
of the freshman class only, and who shall not compete as such for more than
one year, and shall be eligible under the rules of this Conference, except the one-year
rule.
For the purpose of this rule, a Freshman is a student who enters the Institution
from a High School or a Preparatory School.
Section 3. Training Table and Training Quarters. No member of this
Conference is permitted to maintain a training table for any intercollegiate
team.
Section 4. Preliminary Training. There shall be no preliminary training
prior to September 10 or the opening of the college.
Section 5. Contests with Non-Conference Members. No Conference Institution
shall compete with any non-conference institution in conference territory;
of similar rank athletically, that is, one which competes with any member
of the Conference upon the basis of athletic equality, unless both compete under
the rules of eligibility of the Conference. A list of such institutions shall be
determined from year to year at the annual meeting.
Section 6. Before any student can compete in any intercollegiate contest
the faculty chairman of the Athletic Committee of his Conference Institution
shall certify his eligibility to the Chairman of the Executive Committee. All
lists shall be made on blanks furnished by the Secretary and such blanks shall
have printed on their face the rules of eligibility of the Conference and also
a certificate in the following form, which certificate shall be signed by the
Registrar of the Institution, who certifies to the competitor's eligibility on a
scholastic basis, and by the Faculty Chairman of the Athletic Committee who
certifies to the competitor's eligibility on the basis of the Conference Rules.
"We certify that the following men are eligible according to the rules of
eligibility of the Southern Intercollegiate Conference and the scholastic requirements
of (member institution)."
Article XII.
Rules of Eligibility.
The following rules apply to all sports:
Rule 1. Bona Fide Students. No one shall participate in any intercollegiate
contest unless he is a bona fide matriculated student regularly enrolled and doing
full work as defined by the regulations of the institution in which he is enrolled.
A student in special agricultural or other special courses who does not present
the full entrance credits is not eligible under this rule.
Rule 2. No person shall participate in intercollegiate athletics at an institution
until after the expiration of twelve months from the date of his matriculation
there, and until he shall have completed the scholastic requirements of that institution.
Rule 3. Attendance. No student having been a member of any athletic
months of the college year shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
contest thereafter until he shall have been in attendance six calendar months.
Note.—Attendance during Summer Sessions is not counted as "attendance"
for the purpose of this rule.
Rule 4. Migrant Students. (a) No person who has participated in any
Intercollegiate contest in any branch of sport as a member of any college team
shall be permitted to participate in any Intercollegiate contest in the same sport
as a member of a team of any other Institution in this Conference.
(b) Students who have pursued courses of study at one university or
college but who have not participated in any intercollegiate contest, shall be
eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics at another institution, but only
when they have satisfied the conditions as set forth in Rule 2—the one-year-residence
rule.
Rule 5. Limit of Participation. Participation in intercollegiate athletics
shall be limited to three years, over a five-year period, counting from the time
of first matriculation. Participation in any intercollegiate sport in any college
year shall constitute one year of athletic participation.
Rule 6. Compensation. (a) No person who receives any compensation
from his institution for services rendered by way of regular instruction shall
be allowed to participate in intercollegiate contests.
(b) No person shall be allowed to participate in any intercollegiate contest
who receives any gift, remuneration, or pay for his services on a college team.
(c) No person shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
contest who has ever used or is using his knowledge of athletics or his athletic
or gymnastic skill for gain.
Note.—This rule does not apply to any person who has work in connection
with a playground or a summer camp where the requirements do not call for
a man with technical preparation in physical training.
Rule 7. Summer Baseball. No athlete in any Conference Institution shall
participate as a member of any summer baseball team without the consent of
his Faculty Committee on Athletics; and such a player when given permission
to play on such team shall submit at the re-opening of the school term to his
Faculty Committee, a certified statement that he has not received pecuniary
compensation therefor.
Rule 8. No student shall be eligible to participate in intercollegiate contests
if he has played on any baseball team which is a member of an organized league
operating under the National agreement and under supervision of the National
Baseball Commission.
To the list of professional teams thus proscribed shall be added all the
teams in any state which the Conference Institutions of such state declare professional
and from which they debar their own players.
Rule 9. Assumed Name. No person shall take part in any intercollegiate
contest under an assumed name.
Rule 10. Delinquency in Studies. No student who is found delinquent
in his studies by the faculty shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
contest.
Resolution Defining Retroactive.
Be it Resolved, that men who shall have regularly matriculated at any
college by January 1, 1922, shall have all rights and privileges accorded them
which the present athletic rules of that college accord them, shall have their
eligibility judged by those rules and shall be allowed to finish their athletic
careers under those rules except that the right to play in intercollegiate contests
after transference from one college to another shall cease January 1, 1922.
Transfer after that time shall cause the loss of this privilege.
This rule shall in no way be construed to allow participation of a student
as a summer baseball player after January 1, 1922, on any other basis than as
set forth in Rules 7 and 8 of Article XII.
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.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 167.)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
306endorse 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.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.
| The University of Virginia record February 15, 1924 | |