1. A committee of three shall be elected annually at the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association by the principals subscribing to these rules, whose duty it shall be to have general charge of all interscholastic contests under these rules.
2. The chairman of the Athletic Committee of the University of Wisconsin shall be an arbitrator, whose duty it shall be to decide upon alleged violations of these rules.
3. The principal of the school, or persons authorized by him, shall be the manager or managers of the teams representing the school.
4. No game shall be played with any team without the sanction of the principal.
5. No contests shall be arranged with other than school teams acting under these rules.
6. Non-playing captains and managers shall conform to the same rules as players, unless they be members of school faculty.
7. The principal, or his authorized representatives, shall accompany his team to all contests.
QUALIFICATIONS OF CONTESTANTS.
1. To represent a high-school in any athletic contest a person must be a bona fide student in regular attendance, taking three full studies, and obtaining at least a passing standing in each. He must also have obtained a passing standing in two full studies during the previous term, or must have obtained credits in three full studies during his last term of attendance.
Exception.—It is agreed, however, that if during the above-mentioned term any pupil shall obtain ten per cent. above the passing mark in two full studies, and not lower than ten per cent. below passing mark in the third, he shall not be excluded because of failure to obtain the third passing standing.
By full study is meant a regular study in the curriculum of the school requiring daily class-room work. It is stipulated, however, that not less than two periods daily in freehand drawing shall be called a full study.
Standing in each study must be based upon the entire ground covered by the class, and must be a record complete from the beginning of a term to the time required in Section 6. Any athletic contest is understood to mean a contest with any secondary school.
2. Pupils enrolled for the first time shall not be excluded from any contest because of absence during the previous term. But a student entering from another secondary school shall not be allowed to compete unless he has done the work required in Section 1 as a resident student for at least one term. Or he must show as satisfactory a record as that required in Section 1 for at least two terms' work or their equivalent at some similar school in the preceding year. It is stipulated, however, that all candidates under Section 2 must have been members of the school as regular students, conforming otherwise to Section 1 from the first fifteen days of the term in which said contest takes place.
3. A Senior considered by his faculty as a regular candidate for graduation shall not be excluded from any contest because of absence or failure during his first Senior year, provided he is taking three full studies which he has not before completed. It is understood, however, that a Senior who has completed a part of the Senior work in previous years shall not be excluded from contests, provided he is doing the unfinished work of his course.
4. No person shall be eligible as a contestant for more than the minimum number of years required to complete a four-year course.
5. Before taking part in any contest a pupil must file with his principal the written statement of a parent or guardian that said pupil has permission to engage in athletics.
6. No less than five days before a contest there shall be exchanged between the principals of the contesting schools the following data: Name of each candidate, the date of his first enrolment, time in years he has been a member of a secondary school, his age, and studies, with percentage in each for the preceding term, and to the first of the month in which these certificates are exchanged. It must also be stated over the signature of the principal that the candidates are eligible under these rules.
7. No person shall enter a contest under an assumed name.
8. The principal shall have power and is advised to exclude any contestant who, because of bad habits or improper conduct, would not represent the schools in a becoming manner.
9. Each contestant shall sign a statement that he is an amateur, and that he is eligible under these rules. The definitions of amateur and professional shall be those of the Western Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association.
10. These rules may be amended by a vote of a majority of the principals subscribing hereto voting on the subject.
11. These rules shall go into effect on and after January 1, 1897.
These rules have been adopted by twenty-eight high-schools in Wisconsin. Madison H.-S. has adopted all the rules with the exception of No. 5 under the administration heading. They obtained permission to do this in order that they might not be restricted from playing with schools outside the State.
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The Graduate.
NANSEN'S ENDURANCE.
Dr. Nansen seems to have been born and bred for arctic exploration. The strength and hardihood which were his by birth were developed and confirmed by the robust austerity of his early training. One reads of his habit of swimming in the evening in the coldest pools of the Frogner River that ran by the door of his father's house, and is no less astonished at the story of his plunge in the sea in pursuit of his kayaks in the extreme north, and of his endurance of the various cold baths he got in fights with bears and walruses. The man who put his wet and frozen foot-coverings in his bosom to thaw out and dry at night while he slept with his companion in a bag was an extraordinarily tough person, with an astonishing physique hardened by Spartan exercises. In his teens, he says, he used to go off on lonely expeditions in the great Frogner woods, and be gone alone for weeks at a time. "I disliked," he says, "to have any equipment for my expeditions. I managed with a crust of bread, and broiled my fish on the embers. I loved to live like Robinson Crusoe there in the wilderness."