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CORNELL UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC
The University Faculty
ASSOCIATION
controls the conduct of athletic games and
contests by virtue of its disciplinary jurisdiction over the students of
the University. The Faculty's Committee on Student Affairs
approves or disapproves schedules of games, grants or withholds
leave of absence from Ithaca, and prescribes rules of eligibility, holding
the undergraduate manager of any team responsible for enforcing
those rules. The students themselves conduct their sports and their
intercollegiate dealings, being organized in the Cornell University
Athletic Association. An Athletic Council, composed in large part of
undergraduate students and including advisers drawn from the
Faculty, the Board of Trustees and the alumni, governs the affairs
of the association.
The Cornell University
Athletic Association was incorporated in
1889, under the laws of the State of New York, for "the promotion of
University."
the social, gymnastic, and athletic interests of Cornell
The association has a board of six trustees which controls the corpora
tion's property. These trustees are elected by the undergraduate
members of the Athletic Council, four of them from the Faculty, one
from the Board of Trustees of the University, and one from among the
resident graduates. The Athletic Council is composed of these six
trustees of the corporation and about twenty other persons. The
undergraduate captains and managers of all the university teams
under the association's direction are members of the Council, and the
undergraduate "wearers of the C"
elect one of their number a mem
ber. Eight resident members of the University's staff, whether of
instruction or of administration, are elected to membership in the
Council by the undergraduate members, these eight in addition to the
six trustees. Any club of Cornell alumni, wherever it be situated,
may elect one of its number a member of the Council, but if there are
present at a meeting more than three alumni members so elected
they have only three votes among them. The Council elects a
graduate salaried manager of athletics and he ex officio is one of its
members. The Council employs coaches.
Alumni Field is a -acre 5 5 section of the campus which the Board of
Trustees in 1902 appropriated to the students for athletic recreation.
Thirty-five acres of the lot are unfenced playing fields open to all.
The Athletic Association uses the rest of it, having a football field, a
baseball field, and a quarter-mile cinder track, with appropriate
stands and buildings. The Schoellkopf Memorial Building, the gift of
an alumnus in memory of Henry Schoellkopf of the Class of 1902,
houses the association's offices and contains dressing rooms, showers,
etc. The football field and track were equipped by members of the
Schoellkopf family as a memorial of Jacob F. Schoellkopf. Many
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