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EXTRACTS FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE SOUTHERN
CONFERENCE.
Article VII.
General Code. Section 1. Post-Season Games. The football season shall
close the Saturday following Thanksgiving and no member of this Conference
shall engage in any intercollegiate football game after that date.
Section 2. Freshman Teams. Freshman teams shall be composed of members
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.
The freshman football teams of this Conference shall be allowed to play
only five games.
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 the first Monday in September, and no Conference institution shall defray
any part of the living expenses of any student undergoing preliminary
training.
No freshman students shall be allowed to assemble for practice before the
opening of 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. A report
of eligible football players shall be made by October 1, but may be added to
later. 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 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 with at least 15 Carnegie
units, 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
team of his college during any year and having been in attendance less than six
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.
For the purposes of this rule an intercollegiate contest is a contest played by
the varsity or the freshman teams.
(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 one year freshman and three years varsity 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.
(d) The following persons shall be ineligible to compete on any team in this
Conference:
(1) Those who hold any scholarship, fellowship or cadetship involving
financial benefit which is awarded wholly or in part for athletic ability;
(2) Those who enjoy any loan fund or similar financial benefit which is
awarded wholly or in part for athletic ability;
(3) Those who hold any position involving financial benefit which is awarded
wholly or in part for athletic ability.
(e) No person shall be allowed to participate in any intercollegiate contest
who holds for more than one year any scholarship, fellowship or cadetship
involving financial benefit, unless the fact of his holding such scholarship, fellowship
or cadetship be published in the catalogue or other similar official publication
of the institution in question.
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 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 any intercollegiate contest
if he has played on any summer baseball team which played more than three
games a week while he was a member of it.
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.
In the event said Conference Institutions cannot agree on proscribed teams,
the Executive Committee shall have power to decide the issue and the action of
the Committee shall be final.
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 transferring
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.
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