The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-11-11
BEMIDU TO JOIN
ATHL Etc LEAGUE
High School Faculty Members Think
Games Should Be Conducted Under
Rules Of Governing Board.
DECIDES ELIeIBuITY QUEsTIONS
Players Must Possess Certain Glass
b Room Standings to Entitle Them
to Participates IN Contests.

H Room Standings to Entitle Them
to Participate IN Contests.
Members of the Bemidji high school
faculty heartily approve of action
taken at the recent meeting of the
Northwestern Minnesota Educational
association, held at Crooston, when
a. conference was held of the super
intendents, principals and coaches
present and rules and regulations
drawn up to be submitted to- the diff
ferent schools of the district, which
will govern high school athletics in
the future. = ..sE2EE. ~ :. 4 IL i
Athletics in the district hereafter
will be conducted under an associa-
ton to be known as the Northwestern
High School Athletic league. This
body will be the final tribunal by
which all matters of athletics and
disputes will be. settled. The body
was formed as the result of recent
disputes which have arisen in which
several schools are accused of playing
ineligibles and contests in which ath-
letes took part in are disputed, owing
to the fact that athletes were played,
due to the lack of the right interpre-
tation of the Minnesota high school
eligibility rules, by certain schools in
the northwestern district. The rules
as drawn up are as follows, and will
be adopted and go into effect the first
of December:
In School Two Weeks.
i. All students participating in
contests must be registered as regul-
arly classified students in their re-
spective schools not later than two
weeks before the contest, or such
registration becomes void as far. as
qualifying for these contests is con-
cerned. -
Must Be Up to Grade.
g. No student who is not making
school grade in at least three SUBJ
jects for which he is enrolled shall
participate in any contest.
- 8. No student shall he allowed
to compete in, any athletic contest
for more than the first four years
after admission to high school.
4. No person over twenty-one
(21) years of age, nor any high
school graduate shall be allowed to
compete in any inter-high-school con-
test.
5. No student shall be eligible
for any high school contest who has
at any time been member of team
representing a school higher than a
secondary school.
g. Any student who previously
showed himself to be enrolled with
an improper athletic intent shall for
the following year be required to be
enrolled for two months before en-
tering any contest. ''- ~. BE-.
Should Be Accompanied. :. :
T. Contesting teams shall always
be accompanied by the city or vii
lage superintendent or by some mem
Der. of the faculty duly appointed by
the superintendent. This faculty
representative shall be authorized to
act in all matters for the superin-
tendent. -
g.. No contest shall be planned by
students. but all arrangements shall
be made by the superintendent of the
schools concerned or by SOME member
of the faculty duly appointed by the
superintendent for this purpose.
9. The Amateur Athletic Union
rules shall apply in all contests to
viii ch they may apply -s
10. The managing body of the N
w. M. H. S. A. L. shall be composed
of an athletic committee of three 60
members chosen from the member
ship of the association, each school
having one vote. This committee
shall be chosen at the regular meet
ing of the Northwestern Minnesota
Teachers association.
II. Whenever student has been
disqualified, the superintendent of the
! school he represents shall notify the
executive board within two weeks OF
such disqualification.
-. These rules shall go into eff
fectsDec. 1, 1914, and shall take pre-