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...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...
...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...
...faculty of Johns Hopkins has passed a stringent rule requiring the captains of athletic teams to hand in the names of the candidates, and any one who is not found to be a bona fide student in good standing will not be permitted to play...
These rules seem fully to cover the requirements. They eliminate all kinds of professionalism, exclude all but bona fide students in good standing, and minimize the chance of coming to Harvard with athletics as the primary purpose. By them six 'varsity men who are still in college and would care to go into athletics, are excluded. They are Frothingham, Upton, Abbott, Sullivan, of the nine; Fearing, of the crew and Mott Haven team; Lewis, of the eleven. Frothingham, Upton, and Fearing have been on Harvard teams four years. Abbott played on the Dartmouth nine, Sullivan and Lewis came from Amherst...