The following articles shall hereafter regulate contest between the students of Harvard and Yale Universities in base ball, football, rowing, and track and field athletics, for the three years 1890-92 [or until the expiration of nine months after notice by either university of its desire to withdraw from this arrangement].

ARTICLE I.Amateurs.

Rule 1. No one shall be allowed to represent either university in any athletic contest either individually or as a member of any team, unless he is, and intends to be throughout his college year, a bona fide member of the university, taking a full year's work.

Rule 2. No one shall be allowed to represent either university in any 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 whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization or from any permanent organization of which he was at the time a member the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests exceed his ordinary expenses.

Rule 2 shall not be retroactive, in the sense of disqualifying by reason of past acts men who would not have been disqualified thereby under the practice existing in 1889. In exceptional cases the separate Conference Committees hereinafter mentioned may by special vote, remove the disqualification incurred under Rule 2 by acts before entrance to college.

ARTICLE II.Time Limitation.

No student shall be eligible as a member of any university team in any one of the four sports before mentioned after the expiration of the three academic years immediately following that in which he played for the first time in an intercollegiate contest with the university team representing the same sport.

From the beginning of the year 1892 university teams shall be composed exclusively of the following persons:

1. Candidates for the degree of A. B. or B. S.

2. Special students in the academic and scientific departments, not being graduates of any college.

ARTICLE III.Playing Rules.

The umpires and referees in football contests shall be of the requisite age and character to insure a rigid enforcement of the rules of the game. For any misconduct which under the now existing rules would disqualify a player from further participation in a particular contest, the opposing team shall receive points, the number thereof to be determined hereafter by the Football Conference committee.