CONSTITUTION OF THE N.I.S.A.A.A.
Article 1.—This organization shall be known as the National Interscholastic Amateur Athletic Association of the United States.
Article 2.—The objects of this association shall be to foster and promote physical exercise among all public, private, and preparatory schools of the United States.
Article 3.—Any interscholastic league, association, or club, composed of at least two schools, shall be eligible to membership.
Article 4.—The management of this association shall be entrusted to an Executive Committee, of which the President shall be a member ex-officio. They shall be elected for a term of one year, and no league, association, or club shall have more than one representative in the Executive Committee. Vacancies in the membership of the Executive Committee arising from any cause whatever shall be filled by the league, association, or club of which said student is a member.
Article 5.—Any league, association, or club desiring to join this association shall send to the Secretary a written application for membership, said application to be acted upon by the Executive Committee at the next Convention.
Article 6.—The annual Convention of this association shall be held on the evening of the annual meet at 8 o'clock, in the same city where the annual meet is held. The annual field meeting shall be held on the afternoon of the last Saturday in June of each year.
Article 7.—A special meeting may be called by the Secretary at a written request of any league, association, or club belonging to the National Interscholastic Athletic Association, provided that notice of such meeting be sent to every league, association, or club at least fifteen days before the date assigned for such meeting.
Article 8.—At all meetings each league, association, or club may be represented by no more than three delegates, each of whom may take part in a discussion, but in the discussion of any matter each league, association, or club shall be entitled to only one vote. No voting by proxies shall be allowed.
Article 9.—The annual dues shall be $25, payable at the annual meeting, but no league, association, or club shall be considered a member until its first annual dues have been paid.
Article 10.—Any violation of the rules of this association by members shall render them liable to suspension by the Executive Committee until the next meeting of the association, and to expulsion by a two-thirds vote of the league, association, or club representing such meeting.
Article 11.—No one should represent any league, association, or club at the annual field meeting who has attained the age of twenty-one years.
Article 12.—The Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present only.
In addition to this constitution the following by-laws were adopted:
The Executive Committee shall assume entire control of the annual games, and shall decide all the protests.
The annual meeting of the Executive Committee shall be held the evening before the annual field meeting.
Winners and second men in each event in the field meeting in the league, association, or club may compete at the annual field meeting of this association.
These few paragraphs, which look so simple as printed on this page, represent a vast amount of work and thought, and the young men who formulated them at the convention, and spent many hours in discussing them, deserve the gratitude and support of all their sport-loving fellows. There may be some points upon which all scholastic sportsmen will not agree; but instead of picking out these weak points, let me urge them rather to overlook them, and to devote their energies toward insuring the prosperity of the new association.
In the next number of the Round Table we shall continue the series of illustrations of "Field Sports in Detail" begun in No. 822, with a description and commentary upon throwing the hammer.
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