 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1931 |  |
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 245.)
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
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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