Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...season, including a championship game, had been a member of a professional baseball team. At a meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the American Intercollegiate Football Association, held in New York, on Nov. 4, 1889, a rule was passed that no professional athlete should take part in any contest of the Association. This rule barred the member of the Princeton team referred to. The Princeton delegate alone voted against the passage of the rule. Most unfortunately for the best interests of college sports the statement sent us contains no reference to these three questionable cases...
...heartily approve the new rules (subjoined), which have lately been unanimously adopted by the Harvard Football and Baseball Associations, and have been sent to us with the request that they receive our sanction. They provide that no one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest, who is not a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work, and who is not in a strict sense an amateur. They will hereafter govern the constitution of all teams in this College, whatever may be the rules in other colleges...
RULE 1. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public Athletic Contest, either individually or as a member of any team, unless he can satisfy the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports that he is, and intends to be throughout the College year, a bona fide member of the University taking a full year's work...
RULE 2. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public Athletic contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who either before or since entering the University shall have engaged for money in any Athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any Athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument...
...first supposed it would. Occasionally however, a question arises which brings the matter into prominence again. Of late, for example, we have heard some men ask, "But what will happen to Harvard if Yale does not favor a dual league? Will she not be entirely cut off from football contest?" The questions are pertinent ones, since it is altogether likely that is just the attitude Yale will take. They imply, however, a mis-conception of Harvard's attitude. If we understand the case aright, Harvard is today more nearly in a position favorable to her own interests than...