The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-19
YALE ELIGIBILITY RULES.
ACCEPTED AT MASS MEETING
 WITHOUT AMENDMENT

of studies-KnowIedge of New Ath.
 letic Rules to be Disseminated.
 A Yale university mass meeting was called last evening in Osborn hall which accepted without amendment a proposed revision of the Yale eligibility rules for athletics.
 MI. Richardson of the boat club, whc presented the new rules last night, said that the managers of the four main athletic organizations the football baseball and athletic associations and boat club-have recently met and caref- fully considered this question of revi- sion, with the view of making these rules so perfectly plain that there can be no question as to their interpreta- tion.
 Yale athletic managers have estab- lished such a tradition in regard to pro- fessionalism that strict amateur rules are matters of common law, and, while there has been set of plain, strong statutes which have been accepted by each of the associations for many years to their exact phraseology has not been given the care that orderliness and sys. tenn call for in the athletic affairs of a university of two thousand five hun dred men, The natural result of this state of things was to leave in danger men who were not instructed in all the technicalities by which high standard of amateurism must be guarded. Men 11DE Iar 1o teams without knowing it, and when their motives were entirely beyond sus- picion Besides this, unless rules are most carefully phrased a captain Is all ways exposed to the temptation of all lowing some very desirable player to take advantage of technicality.
 A clear and comprehensive codifica- tion was therefore in order, and the managers took up the matter on their own account and sought to bring this about. Since the revision proposed was accepted last night by the university, it is their purpose to extend the knowledge of these rules among old students and prospective students of Yale.
 The managers, who have had charge of the .codification and presented it last night, were MT. Richardson of the boat club, Mr. Eliason of the baseball asso- ciation, Messrs. Hixon and Francis of the football association, and MT. Coy of the athletic association. Objection was made at the meeting in regard to the fourth section of the new rules, which relates to the ineligibility of men who have been dropped from their class for neglect of studies. The objection, which was put in the form of an amendment to strike out this section, was based up- on the fact that the faculty has a simi- lar rule in regard to the scholarships of athletes, and that this rule would there fore be useless.
 To this Manager Hixon replied that the rule, If included, could no do hurt, and contained principle which should not by any means be violated.
 The amendment was defeated by a close margin.
 The rules as adopted last night read as follows:
 I. No professional athlete, and no man who has ever received any pecuniary reward or any emolument whatsoever by reason of his connection with athletics, such as the receiving of board for playing summer baseball coaching or acting as teacher in any branch of athletics whatever, shall rep resent any university athletic associa- tion of Yale.
 II. No man shall be eligible flo rany athletic association of Yale who is not a candidate for a degree in a course requiring at least two years and attendance upon not less than eight hours of recitations or lec- lures per week. No graduate student shall be eligible to represent any uni versity athletic association of Yale un- less he is pursuing course of study re- quiring attendance upon at least eight hours of recitations or lectures week, and has satisfied the faculty of his in- tention of completing said course of rec itations or lectures for the entire college year.
 III. No man who has attended recita. tions or lectures in any other college or shall be eligible to represent any university athletic association of Yale, until he has been enrolled in Yale for at least one CD calendar year, and during said year has been a bona f1de student of Yale university.
 w No man who has been dropped from his class for neglect of studies, or who has resigned because of his in. ability to maintain the required grade of scholarship, shall be eligible to rep resent any university athletic associa- ton of Yale, until he is re-admitted to his class, or until one CD calendar year after his resignation or the time of his being dropped.
 V. No student shall take part in any contest of university athletic associa- -ion in any one branch of athletics for more than four years. The year or years during which any man shall have represented, upon any of it's teams any other college, shall be reckoned as f he has been member of university athletic association of Yale for this per- cd.
 These rules are entirely undergradu- ate rules, and are established by the undergraduates to govern themselves,
 
 WHITNEYvILLE.