Section 5.- At the written request of any two members of the Advisory Committee, or delegates of the Intercollegiate Association, the secretary of the committee shall convene a meeting, both of the Advisory Committee and of the Intercollegiate Association, but the same shall be only on five days' written notice to the various members and delegates, which notice must contain a statement of the object of the said meetings. The meetings of the present year shall be governed by this section.
Section 6.- There shall be an umpire and a referee; the referee to judge for the ball, and the umpire for players. No man shall act as umpire who is an alumnus of either of the competing teams. The umpire shall be nominated and elected by the Advisory Committee. The referee shall be chosen by the two captains of the opposing teams in each game, except in case of disagreement, when the choice shall be referred to the Advisory Committee, whose decision shall be final of any provision of the constitution or of the rules of the Association during the year preceding; but this section shall not be construed as effecting any question of fact, the determination of which rests in the discretion of the referee. All referees and umpires shall be permanently elected or assigned on or before Oct. 15 in each year.
Section 7.- The Advisory Committee shall act as a committee of appeals and shall hold its regular annual session on the first Saturday of December in each year, at which time it shall hear and finally determine any appeal, which must be in writing, from a decision or determination which substantially effects the interpretation or construction.
ARTICLE IV.Section 1.- The series shall consist of one game with each college, and shall be played upon grounds mutually agreed upon.
Section 2.- The two leading colleges of the preceding year shall play in or near New York.
Section 3.- The championship shall be decided by greatest number of games won. In case of a tie in games won, the team losing the fewest games shall have the championship. In case there is a tie for second place in the championship series, the record of the previous year shall determine which of the two colleges so tying shall play with the champions in New York (according to the provisions of section 2 of this article).
ARTICLE V.In all of the championship games the net receipts shall be equally divided between the contesting colleges.
ARTICLE VI.Any team failing to meet its engagements shall, unless the failure be caused by unavoidable accident in travelling or by postponement with the consent in writing of the other team, shall forfeit the game and its membership. Any college failing to put a team in the field each year shall forfeit its membership. A certificate signed by three members of the faculty shall be considered sufficient excuse for failure to play.
ARTICLE VII.There shall be two meetings of this Association-one to be held on the 1st Saturday in May : the other on the second Saturday in October.
ARTICLE VIII.The printing of the rules and constitution shall be given to Mr. Walter C. Camp and 50 copies shall be forwarded to each college of the Association free of charge.
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