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. I. A. A. rules
regarding the playing Of sum
mer baseball by college players.
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 or units
in order to be eligible to play on the
baseball team their first year.
This rule applies only to football.
and il provides that to play football
in his first year a collegian must lee
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 Of
any kind.
Some colleges have a freshman re-
quirement Of only 10 or 13 units; but,
! then, these are likely to be units of Il
particular kind-depending upon the
! kind of college it 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 ne
| is taking.
or. again. after he has been at a
particular college for one year he can
thereafter play on the varsity team,
I 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 the
college that has ub-freshman class
or apprentice class, as it rs called NJ
some colleges.
lTF a boy has already attended some
| other college-no mater whether
| in or out of the S. /. A. A.-he can
play anything but football in the first
year of his attendance at his new
college, provided he did not play in
tercolleRiate games at his former in
| stitution II he did he will have to
| be In residence one full academic
year at the second college before he
| can again figure in intercollegiate
contests. But no matter whether he
ever played on the varsity football
team of his first college or not, he
can not play on the varsity team OF
the second until he has years resi-
dence.
| . OMETIMES 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 knocking out a
lhome run" or whatever 1t was. yet
1.-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
lumpiring a game Of ball, or for acting
as manager Of a summer team. al
though he can do either Of these
things with impunity when and where
he pleases so long as he does them
for nothing and doesn't violate the
playing rules already laid down.
A BOY who hopes to try for any ot
u the varsity teams Of his college,
In any year Of his course must make
Isure to enter and matriculate In that
college not later than 80 days after
the opening Of the fall term Of that
lcollege. Thus. for baseball In the
lspring, 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 but few athletic clubs In the
| South, and those about all In good
standing now, the force Of these rules
is reduced to where they are hardly
worth outlining.
|
TT may be worth while stating that
the question OF individual scholar
ship after entering IS one with which
the 8. I. A A. does not concern it
self This Is left TO the faculties OF
the individual colleges, each OF which