Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-15
By j. W. Heisman.

A WEEK ago I briefly outlined
"A some of the S. l. A. A. rules
regarding the playing of sum
mer baseball by college players. 1
will now outline a few more that the
rule makers have laid down.
A point little understood by pre-
paratory players about to enter col
lege is that they are not required to
have any particular number OF units
in order to be eligible to play on the
baseball team their first year.
This rule applies only to football;
and it provides that TO play football
in his first year a collegian must Ice
able to present IA or more Carnegie
units, of any kind. or else that he
must be able to enter the freshman
class of the particular college he in
tends to enter without conditions d
any kind.
Some colleges have a freshman re-
duirement of only II or 10 units; but,
then, these are likely to be units of
particular kind-depending upon the
kind of college # is.
A candidate for the varsity football
team has to satisfy one or the other
of these two conditions and then he
can play his first year, no matter
what class he is in or what course he
is taking.
or. again, after he has been at
particular college for one year he can
thereafter play on the varsity team,
no matter what class he is in, in his
second year.
But In baseball a boy can play in
his first year. no matter how few
units he possesses or what class he IS
in. This rule is of advantage to tho
college that has sub-freshman class
or apprentice class, as II is called Mt
some colleges.
IF boy has already attended some
other college-no mater whether
in or out Of the s. l. A. Abe can
play anything but football in the first
year of his attendance at his new
college, provided he did not play in.
tercollegiate games at his former in
stitution. II he did he win have to
be in residence one full academic
year at the second college before he
can again figure Ia intercollegiate
contests. But no matter whether he
ever played on the varsity football
team Of his first college OF not, he
can not play on the varsity team Of
the second until he has a years resi-
dence.
9 OMETIMBS a purse is made up,
- on the spur of the moment by
the admirers of a college player. for
doing something extraordinary in the
course of a summer baseball game.
| He may not have been offered any
thing in advance OF ''knochng out a
home rum" or whatever IL was, yet
the rule Is that he must not take this
purse. He may have had money sim
/ ply thrown at him from the grand
stand after his feat, but he must not
take It.
Neither may he accept money for
umpiring a game of ball, or for acting
ss manager Of a summer team, al
| though he can do either OF these
he pleases so long as he does them
for nothing and doesn't violste the
playing rules already laid down.
A BOY who hopes 70 try for any OF
II the varsity teams OF HIS college.
in any year of his course must make
sure 70. enter and matriculate IN that
college not later than 30 days after
the opening Of the fall term OF that
college. Thus, for baseball IN the
spring, he can not afford to wait until
the opening of the second or third
term OF that college IN January or
March, as the case may be.
Thus we see that the rules regard
/ ing eligibility to participate in inter
| collegiate contests are not only nu-
merous, but rather complex as well
There are even some further rules re-
| garding playing on athletic club
teams in good or bad standing in the
Amateur Athletic Union; but as we
have bat few athletic clubs IN the
South, and those. about all In good
I -. -.
worth outlining.
TT may be worth while stating that
the question OF individual scholar
ship after entering IL one with which
the s. / A. A. does not concern IT.
SELF This Is left to the faculties OF
the individual colleges, each % which