 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1929 |  |
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
| WILLIAM ALEXANDER LAMBETH, M.D., Ph.D. | Director of Physical Education |
| LAWRENCE THEODORE LUDWIG, B.P.E. | Associate Professor of Physical Education |
| PAUL OTTO, B.S., M.P.E. | Assistant Professor of Physical Education |
| ROBERT NOBLE HOSKINS, B.S. | Instructor in Physical Education |
| WILLIAM MONTELLE HOBSON, B.S. | Instructor in Physical Education |
| LESTER INGLIS BOWMAN | Assistant Instructor in Physical Education |
| HENRI PHILIP AYRES | Assistant Instructor in Physical Education |
| ANDREW PLUNKET BEIRNE | Assistant Instructor in Physical Education |
| HENRY HADEN LANNIGAN | Instructor in Athletics |
| MARY HILDRETH CASSELL | Instructor in Swimming |
| JOHN ELSROAD | Instructor in Swimming |
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 should take this examination at time of registration. 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.
The Memorial Gymnasium
The Memorial Gymnasium was completed in 1924, and 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
auxiliary gymnasium 30 by 70 feet. The swimming pool is 30 by 75 feet, with
a gallery for spectators. A general locker room provides for 1,700 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,
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 195.
ATHLETICS
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 Genral
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 faculty members of the Council form the
committee on eligibility.
The University of Virginia is a member of the Southern Conference.
EXTRACTS FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE SOUTHERN
CONFERENCE
Article VII
General Code
Section 1. Post-Season Games. The football season shall close the second
Saturday following Thanksgiving and no member of this Conference shall engage
in any intercollegiate football game after that date except with the consent
of the Conference.
Section 2. Freshman Teams. Freshman teams shall be composed of members
of the freshman class only, 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.
The Freshman football teams of this Conference shall be allowed to play
only five games in any regular season.
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,
assembling of candidates or issuing of equipment prior to the first Monday in
bear the expense of food for men during preliminary training provided that
no such expenses shall begin prior to the first Monday in September nor prior
to fifteen days before the opening of the college session.
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 athletic rank, 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. Eligibility Certificates. Before any student can compete in any
intercollegiate contest, the faculty chairman of the Athletic Committee of his
Conference Institution shall certify the eligibility of football candidates 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 Conference and the scholastic requirements of
(member institution)."
Section 7. Rules. All rules of the Conference shall apply to all intercollegiate
sports.
Article VIII
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; provided that no student in any Conference
institution which admits conditional students with less than fifteen
Carnegie units shall be eligibie for varsity competition unless such student on
first entrance presents fifteen Carnegie units either by certificate or examination
and provided further that no work done after such entrance shall remove
such ineligibility.
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
one-half of the college year shall be permitted to participate in any intercollegiate
of the next college year. The term "college year" shall be construed to mean the
term beginning in September of each year and continuing for two semesters
or three quarters.
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 purpose 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 an 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.
(c) Transfers from a junior college, normal school or other institution not
offering a standard four-year course may be allowed to continue their athletic
careers at the institution to which they transfer provided that they conform
to the one-year-residence rule.
(d) A student in the preparatory department of a college who plays on
the freshman or varsity team of that college, if he transfers to a Conference
college, shall be regarded as a migrant student.
Rule 5. Limit of Participation. Participation in intercollegiate athletics
shall be limited to one freshman and three years varsity over a period of
five college years counting from date of first matriculation. Every student
shall be allowed three years of varsity participation in each sport, provided
such participation falls within the five-year period herein defined.
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 his knowledge of athletics or his athletic or gymnastic
skill for gain.
Note: This rule does not apply to any person who has worked 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 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) Any college athlete receiving money for signing a contract with a
professional baseball team shall be ineligible for intercollegiate athletics.
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 reopening of the school
term to his Faculty Committee, a certified statement that he has not received
pecuniary compensatin therefor.
No student playing on a baseball team recognized by the National Baseball
Commission shall be eligible for intercollegiate athletics.
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. This rule applies to
regularly matriculated college students and not to students who played summer
baseball before entering college.
To this list of professional teams thus prescribed, 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 can not agree on prescribed teams, the Executive Committee shall
have power to decide the issue and the action of the Committee shall be final.
A student who plays baseball on team which plays three games a week
shall not be allowed to play on any other team during the same week.
No college player is permitted to play on an athletic team other than that
of his own college during the college year.
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.
Rule 11. Outside Participation. No college football player is permitted to
play on a football team other than that of his own college.
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 authority, and
must not be on probation. (See page 208.)
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 General 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.
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