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...RULE 2. BONA FIDE STUDENTS.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 is, and intends to be throughout a college year, a bona fide member or the university, taking a full year's work...
...RULE 3. TIME LIMIT.No student, whether he has represented one or more colleges shall take part in intercollegiate contests for more than four years; and this period shall begin with the year in which, as a player upon a university team, he first represented any college. In reckoning the four years, the year of probation mentioned in Rule 2 shall be excluded, and also any year lost to a student by illness. But this rule shall not, during the calendar year 1893, disqualify any one who would be eligible under pre-existing rules...
That is the position Yale has now taken. Harvard's representative at the athletic meeting suggested an amendment to Yale's proposed rule to the effect that graduates of one year's residence should be allowed to compete, but when Yale accepted the amendment the Harvard representative voted against...
Since you have quoted the opinion of the chairman of our Athletic Committee, Professor Ames desires me to say that he still believes that the adoption of the undergraduate rule would be a great gain to intercollegiate athletics, but that he also believes a still greater gain would be accomplished by combining with a time limitation of four years, as in our Rule 3, the more stringent measure recommended by Mr. Walter Camp, excluding students who have not resided one year at the university, to which our Rule 2 is a close approximation...
Yale and Princeton have agreed to play their baseball games this year under the provisions of the recent undergraduate rule. All questions as to the eligibility of the various players will be decided by a committee consisting of Walter Camp of Yale and C. C. Culyer of Princeton; and in case of any disagreement between them the decision will be given into the hands of a third person to be chosen by the committee. This decision will be final in all cases...