Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wagenhurst, who played in the games in the earlier part of the 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...
...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...
...Rule 2 shall go into effect on January 1, 1890, but shall not be retroactive, in the sense of disqualifying by reason of past acts men who would be eligible under the practice at that time existing...
...exceptional cases the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports may by special vote remove the disqualification incurred under Rule 2 by acts performed before entrance to college...