Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-16
Iowa College Athletic Confer
ence Rules Have Been Sent
to Schools of the State
WILL ADOPT THEM BY VOTE
Rules Are Most Rigid and If Lived Up
Will Purge Iowa Amateur Athletics
Of Many Objectionable Features -
Vote of Any Twelve Schools Makes
Effective Any or All of the Rules.

Prof. Frank F. Amy, Of Grinnell
acting secretary of the Iowa Athlete
conference, has sent out the proposed
rules of the conference. Copies wer
sent to twenty colleges and universitie
| Friday. All of the schools are give.
until January 20 to adopt the rules
and all rules adopted by that time b.
any twelve of the colleges will becom,
binding upon all the colleges of thu
conference. Some Of the rules viii
/ doubtless not meet the approval o
some of the schools and changes will
probably be made in some before they
are finally adopted. By this means
in fair way to secure a set of rule:
that can be used by all, provided thai
all are sincere in their professed de-
/ sire to purify and benefit amateur
athletics.
The rules as sent out are as follows:
J.. No one shall participate in any
intercollegiate sport unless he be
bona fide student doing full work in q
regular or special course as defined in
| the curriculum of his college and UNI
| til after he has been in residence fol
| eighteen weeks and received credit fol-
| the work of that period. No undergrad
uate coming from one college to an
other shall participate in any inter-
collegiate sport until he has been In
residence one year, unless year shall
have interviewed between his residence
at the two institutions.
2. No person shall be admitted te
any intercollegiate contest who receives
| any gift, remuneration or pay for his
| services on the college team.
g. No student shall participate in
baseball, foot ball. track athletics. ten
mis- and basketball upon the teams OF
any college for more than four years In
the aggregate and any member of q
college team who plays during any
part of an intercollegiate foot ball Cor
basebalD game, does thereby partici-
pate in that sport for the year. pro-
vided always that the first three games
of intercollegiate foot ball in each sea-
son shall not count as participation.
$50. No student shall participate in
any intercollegiate contest who has ev-
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athletics or his athletic skill for gain,
or who has taken part in any athletic
contest in which a money prize is Of
fered, regardless Of the disposition to
be made of the same. No person who
receives any compensation from the
college for services rendered by way Of
regular instruction shall be allowed to
pay on the team.
s. No student shall play in any game
under an assumed name.
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.
z. All intercollegiate games shall be
played on grounds either owned by, or
under immediate control of, one or both
of the colleges participating in the con-
test, and all intercollegiate games shall
be played under student or college
management, and not under the con-
troll of any corporation or association
or private Individual.
s. The election OF managers and
captains of teams in each college shall
be subject to the approval OF its COM
lnittee on athletics.
9. College foot bail teams shall
play only with teams representing ed
,1cational institutions.
10. All lists Of players certified for
intercollegiate games shall be mailed
prior to the first intercollegiate game.
to the secretary Of the conference
signed by the president and the
Of the college, stating fully any special
conditions. Before every intercollegi-
ate contest the respective chairmen of
the athletic committee of the institu-
tions concerned shall submit to each
other certified list Of the players
eligible under the rules adopted, to
participate in said contest; and it
shall be the duties of the captains of
the respective teams to exclude all
players from the contest except those
certified.
IL. Athletic committees shall re-
uuire each candidate for a team to
represent the institution in intercol-
legiate contests, to subscribe to a
statement that he is eligible under the
letter and spirit of the rules adopted.
IL. No person having been a mem
Der of any athletic team during any
year and having been in attendance
less than one college half year, shall be
permitted to play in any intercollegiate
contest thereafter until he shall have
been in attendance six consecutive cal
endar months.
49, A student shall be ineligible to
represent his college in athletic con-
tests who engages in such contests, as
4 representative Of any athletic or
ganization not connected with his
whether in term or vacation,
except by special written permission
obtained of the proper
athletic authorities.
Occasional games during vacation
On teams which have no permanent or
sanization are not prohibited provided
written permission has been first Sc
cured and further, provided that such
permission be granted for one term on
v during any single vacation, and 1t
8 expressly understood that no per-
will be given to play on a
team. In the admin
stration of the rule it is expressly |
Understood that professional
cam is one any member Of which re-
.eives remuneration for his services;
md proof of this fact shall not dee
,olve on the person giving the per.
mission, but may accept common re-
port as a basis for action.
students OF secondary school rank
on college teams shall be
Lllowed one year Of such competition |
without having n counted against |