 | The University of Virginia record April 1, 1935 |  |
ATHLETICS
JAMES GLENN DRIVER, Director
THOMAS MOORE CARRUTHERS, Assistant
Intercollegiate and intramural athletics are under the supervision of the
Director of Athletics and his staff. The University is represented in intercollegiate
competition by both varsity and first-year football, baseball, basketball,
track, cross-country, boxing, tennis, swimming and lacrosse teams. The athletic
plant is one of the finest in the South. Memorial Gymnasium contains three
basketball courts, a swimming pool, a track, boxing and wrestling rooms, and
adequate locker facilities. Scott Stadium, which seats 22,000 people, is regarded
as one of the most beautiful in the country. Lambeth Field has excellent facilities
for track and baseball. Twenty-two tennis courts and four practice fields
for mass games have been built near the Gymnasium.
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 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. Football Season. No member of the Conference shall engage
in any football game after the expiration of its season except by 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.
No freshman who has been a student at any other college shall be eligible
to compete on a freshman team of a Southern Conference institution.
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 pay for the maintenance of 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
September. Athletic Associations of Southern Conference institutions may bear
the expense of food for men during preliminary training provided that no such-expenses
shall begin prior to the first Monday in September.
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 he must fill out an eligibility blank furnished by the Conference
which blank shall be kept on file by the Faculty Chairman of Athletics
subject to the command of the President of the Southern Conference.
Section 7. Rules. All rules of the Conference shall apply to all intercollegiate
sports.
Section 8. Scholarship and Loan Funds. All scholarship and loan funds
for which athletics are eligible must be administered by a University officer or
committee that usually administers such funds.
Article XIII
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, a graduate of an
accredited public high school, or with at least fifteen Carnegie units or the
equivalent, certified by an approved preparatory school with the recommendation
of the principal. Credits presented as a result of final examinations conducted
in accordance with standard accredited agencies by a recognized examining board
may be accepted. At least eleven of the fifteen units required for entrance must
be in academic subjects.
Rule 2. No student shall be eligible for varsity athletics until he has passed
twenty-four semester hours or thirty-six quarter hours. After a student has
become eligible for athletics, to be eligible for any ensuing year, he must have
provided, however, that hours for the second and third quarter or second
semester shall be regulated by the separate institutions.
Rule 3. 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 of his Conference.
For the purpose of this rule, an intercollegiate contest is a contest played by
the varsity or the freshman team.
(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 any intercollegiate athletics at another institution.
(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 and to the five-year limit of participation, counting
from the date of first participation in the junior college.
Students who have been in the preparatory department of a junior college,
who have taken no college work but have played on the junior college team shall
not be eligible for freshman participation at Conference institutions.
Rule 5. Limit of Participation. Participation in intercollegiate athletics
shall be limited to one freshman and three varsity years over a period of five
consecutive 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 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.
(c) No athlete shall be the beneficiary of any loan fund, scholarship, or
fellowship, that may not be held by other students in the University who are not
athletes.
Rule 7. Any college athlete who signs a contract or enters into any agreement,
explicit or implicit, with a professional team shall not be eligible for intercollegiate
athletics.
No student who has played on a baseball team recognized by the National
Commission of Baseball Clubs shall be eligible for intercollegiate athletics.
Rule 8. Outside Participation. No college football player is permitted to
play on a football team other than that of his own college.
Rule 9. No college player is permitted to play on an athletic team other than
that of his own college during the college year.
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 189).
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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