The morning call., 1893-03-26
ATHLETICS.
Rules Adopted by Harvard University
for This Year.

for This Year.
Amateur athletic sport will undoubtedly
receive an impetus this year, which should
prove to the various athletic clubs that unity
Of action is all that is necessary to re-
cuperate a partially defunct pastlme.
The handsome athletic grounds that ara
now being constructed in Oakland and Palo
Alto are alone sufficient evidence to prove
that outdoor sports must boom when COM
peting clubs send forth their best men to
contest for championship hOnors.
The Olympic Club is already fortified with
frst-class outdoor grounds and frst-class
gymnasium within doors; consequently it
would be greatly to the discredit of this
popular organization If any of the smaller
clubs Of the Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic
Association should wrest a victory at an
open field-day meeting from its representa-
tives.
The athletic committee Of Harvard uni
versity has adopted new set of rules for
the government of the composition Of her
teams in all departments, which will no
doubt interest the athletes of the California
universities. They read Rule /. ANA
teurs-No student shall be allowed to rep
resent Harvard in any public athletic
contest, either Individually OF as a member
OF any Team, VINO, ellutT DeIOfo or since
entering the university, shall have engs ged
for money in any athletic competition,
whether for a stake OF q money prize. or u
share of the entrance fees or admission
money. or who shall have taught or engaged
in any athletic exercise or sport as a means
of livelihood. or who shall at any time
have received for taking part in any ath-
letc sport or contest any pecuniary gain or
em0lument whatever direct or indirect
with the single exception that he may have
received from the college organization, or
from any permanent amateur association of
which he was at the time a member the
amount by which the expenses necessarily
incurred BY him in representing his organ
ization in athletic contests exceeded his
ordinary expenses.
.. Bona-fide students-NO one shall be al
lowed to represent Harvard University in
any public athletic contest, either individu-
ally or as a member OF any team. unless he
is, and intends 10 be throughout the college
year, bona-fide member of the university,
taking full years work. A student who
is dropped for neglect of his studies into a
lower class shall be debarTed from taking
part il intercollegiate contests until the end
OF the next academic year or until he Is
permitted by the faculty to rejOin his class
No one hereafter entering the university
who Is not freshman in the college or
scientific school, and no freshman In either
of those departments who has ever played
In an intercollegiate contest, or upon class
OF university team of any other college,
shall play upon Harvard team until he has
resided one academic year at the university
and passed the annual examination upon q
full years work.
8. Time imit-No student, whether he has
represented one or more colleges, shall take
part in the intercollegiate contests for more
than four years, ana this period shall begin
With the year In which, as a player upon
university team. he first represented any
college. In reckoning the four years, the
year OF probation mentioned in rule shall
be excluded, and also any year lost to a
student by illness, but this rule shall rot
during the calendar year 1898 diSQuaify any
one who would be eligible under pre-eXist-
ing rules.
The rules clearly define the position of
Harvard regarding the proposed under
graduate rule and the efforts being made In
the way of reform In the matter of college
athletics. The committee has, for the pres
ent year at least, determined TO adhere to
may be taken by Yale or other colleges.
although 1t is not improba ble that II Yale
can be induced to agree to what Harvard
considers a reasonable and just standard
some modification may be made in their
provisions.
The regular spring field day Of the Uni
veTsitv Athletic Association Will be held on
Wednesday, April II. This will give a
number of events for the month. On April
the interclass sophomore-freshman field
day comes off. On the 9Th, 18th and 29th of
April the intercollegiate baseball games
will be played. The big event win be on
April q, when an intercollegiate field day
will be held