Word: fide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other grounds it is a matter for great concern that a college of prominence should by its own admission go on the principle-to state it at its best-that so long as a man is a bona fide student, it is no objection to his eligibility to play on his college team that he has played on a professional team for money. It would be needless to point out how easily the admission of such a principle would afford a cover for corruption of the worst sort. The experience of sportsmen the world over is that the only safe...
...very difficult to obtain any copy of the athletic rules which were adopted by Harvard last year with regard to amateurs, bona fide students, and the time limit. As the various teams have begun training, these rules are now of special interest, though they are far from being understood by all. Accordingly a reprint of them is given below...
RULE II. BONA FIDE STUDENTS.No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest, either individually or as a member of any team, unless he is, or intends to be throughout a college year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work...
...length of the halves to two of 35 minutes instead of the old regulation of two of 45 minutes is an important innovation, tending to make the game quicker and more lively. The old form of opening play has been abolished and the new rules require a bona fide kick of more than ten yards. A new official has been added, to be known as a linesman, whose duty shall be to keep time, mark the distance gained, and give testimony to unnecessary roughness, offside play, and holding...
Rules I and II, with reference to amateur standing and bona fide students, respectively, are substantially the same as the first two of the new rules adopted at Harvard, which were also adopted in the Harvard-Pennsylvania football agreement. Rule III, with regard to the time limit, is the same as the Harvard rule except that a student is allowed to play four years on a 'varsity team regardless of whether he has represented another college before or not. This difference is due to the fact that many of the so-called colleges from which students go to the University...