The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-23
BARS COLLEGE PROFESSION
Conference Adopts Rules to Govern
Athletic Sports

Athletic Sports.
The delegates from the Kansas coll
leges. who were sent here to draft the
rules to govern intercollegiate sports,
have determined upon a set of rules and
qualifications, which if followed, VIII
forever bar professionalism from college
athletics.
The athletic boards Of the colleges
must pass upon the rules and agree to
adopt them There is little doubt but
that the rules, substantially as agreed
upon, will be adopted The representa-
tives who formulated the code were as
follows:
State university-Dr. ]. Naismith,
Prof. M. w. Sterling and H. P Zones.
Washburn college-Prof. Ellis and
Baker university-Prof c. S. Parmen-
State nor1nal-Prof. E. N. Carney and
A. B. Durham.
Following were the rules adopted:
Rule l. No one shall participate in
any intercollegiate game or athletic
sport unless he be a bonafide student
doing full work in a regular or special
course as defined in the curriculum of
his college, and no student who has
participated in any intercollegiate game
as a member of the college team shall be
permitted to play on the team of any
other college during the succeeding sea-
son devoted to that game, unless he has
obtained college academic degree or has
completed the course in preparatory de-
partment of a college.
Rule 2 No person shall be admitted
to any intercollegiate contest who re-
ceive5 any gift, remuneration or pay for
his services on the college team.
Rule g. No student shall participate
in a particular sport upon the teams Of
any college or colleges for more than six
years in the aggregate, and any mem
Der of a college who plays during any
part of an intercollegiate football or
baseball game does thereby participate
in the sport for that year.
Rule A. No student shall participate
in any intercollegiate contest who has
ever used or is using his knowledge Of
athletic skill for gain. No person who
receives any compensation from a col
1ege or preparatory department for
services rendered by way of regular in
struction shall be allowed to play on any
team.
Rule 5. No student shall play in any
game under an assumed name
Rule 6. NO student shall be permitted
to participate in any intercollegiate con-
test who is found by the faculty to be
delinquent in his studies either past or
current.
Rule T. All intercollegiate games
shall be played on grounds either owned
or under the immediate control of one
or both of the colleges participating in
the contest, and all intercollegiate games
shall be played under student manage
ment and not under the control of any
corporation, association or private indi-
viduaL
Rule 8. The election Of managers and
captains of teams in each college shall
be subject to the approval of the COM
nittee on athletics.
Rule 8. At least five days before any
intercollegiate contest the respective
chairmen of the athletic committees of
the institutions concerned shall submit
to each other a certified list of players
eligible under the rules adopted to par
ticipate in said contest. 1t shall be the
duty of the captains of the respective
teams to exclude all players from the
contest save those so certified.
Rule 10. Athletic committees shall re-
quire each candidate for a team to rep
resent the college in intercollegiate con-
tests to subscribe to a statement that
he is eligible under the letter and spirit
of these rules.
Rule IL No person having been
member of a college athletic team dur
ing any year and having been in attend
anee less than eighteen consecutive
weeks or the full spring term, if it be less
than eighteen weeks, shall be permitted
to play in any intercollegiate contest
thereafter until he shall have been in at
tendance eighteen consecutive weeks.