The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-22
Eligibility Rules
TOGOVern Players
i(By E. Shugrue.)

Bridgeport High school in company
with 40 other high schools and prep
schools throughout the state have
voted to adopt a set of eligibility
ters' Club of Connecticut. Nine of
the schools have voted to accept the
rules with the exception of rule 8 and
one has voted against acceptance of
rule 5.
The rules of the Headmasters' Club
are, to wit: To play on any team rep
resenting his school.
| L. A pupil must have been mem
Der Of the school for at least twelve
weeks Immediately preceding the
time of playing, except in case of
pupils who have been regularly adj
united from a grammar school, Or
lhave been regularly transferred from
another secondary school.
2. He must conform to the Scho1-
arship requirements of his own
school, but must be taking the equiv
alent of sixteen periods of prepared
per week and must have maintained
| year a, passing aggregating not less
than Ia Rotations periods per week.
TWO periods in an unprepared sub
ject snail count as one recitation per-
| iod for this requirement.
| 3. He must not be a graduate, in
a four years course of any second
airy school.
! 4. He must not represent his school
in athletics for more than four
years.
5. He shall not be eligible to play
after his 21st birthday.
6. If pupil plays under an as
su1ned name he shall be disqualified
for the remainder of the season, and
| the game played under such condi-
tions shall be forfeited.
| z. Certified lists of pupils eligible
vised date and signed by the head
master, shall be exchanged by the
= manag gers of the teams at every ath-
| letic contest with another school.
be filed with the headmaster OR
| principals of the schools involved.
! 8. No pupil playing under these
rules shall play any (outslde) team
| in the same branch of athletics dur
ing the school terms.
| 8. The principal of each signatory
! school agrees that the rulings or in
| terpretations of this code, made by the
| committee on athletics of the Head
masters Club of Connecticut shall be
| final.
10. It is recommended, %. that a
| teacher of each school be present at
| all regular contests between schools
! CD that all games be played On Fri
days, Saturdays, weekdays holidays
or days preceding holidays, CD thai
these rules be sent out annually and
be resigned every two years.
II. These rules shall take effect on
and after Sept. L, 1920.
All questions of protest or uncer-
| tainty may be submitted to the Per
manent Committee on Athletics. The
! committee will give prompt rulings
| Members of the committee are: James
G. Moody. chairman. New Britain
Henry E. Cottle, Bristol. or L. P
| Knapp, South Manchester.
The list of signatory schools to the
Athletic Code for Eligibility 1920:
.Ansonia High, *BetheI High
/ Bloomfield High, Bridgeport High
Bristol High, Collinsville High, eros
by High, *Derby High, East Hart
ford High, Enfield High, Essex High
Fairfield High, *Farmington High
Gilbert school, winsted, Glastonbury
High, *Greenwich High, *Hartford
High, Killingby High, Danielson
tLakeville High, Leavenworth High
Waterbury, Meriden High, Mil
ford High, Morgan School, Gin
ton, Naugatuck High, New Britain
High, New London High, new New
Haven High, New Milford High, Nor
witch Free Academy, *xOld Saybrool
High, Plainfield High, Portland High
Putnam High, Rockville High, Shell
ton High, simsbury High, souti
Manchester High, Stonington High
Stafford High, Stamford High, Terry
fville High, Torrington High, Walling
ford High, Watertown High, *Wes
1 Hartford High, Wildly High, Water
bury, Windam High, Willimantic
Williams Memorial Institute, New
London, Tourtel1otte Memorial High
North Grosvenordale.
non signatory to rule ).