Fences were erected, a strict time limit was in place, tennis shoes were required, marshals and doctors were in place, the field cleared of rocks and debris, and planning and rules were as detailed as they had ever been. 1. No street fighting or parading before or after the Tank Scrap by the lower classes except during the nights of the preliminary fight and the Tank Scrap. 2. The preliminary Scrap shall be held on Stuart Field and shall begin no later the 9:00 PM. 3. The Scrap will be held on the traditional grounds and start no earlier than 7:00PM and end no later than 10:00PM including the celebration following the Scrap. 4. Rubber soled tennis shoes must be worn in both fights. 5. No member of either class shall carry knives, hooks, or any other device that may cause injury. 6. All bills necessary to conduct the fights shall be contracted by the Student Council Tank Scrap Committee. 7. The scrap leaders of the two classes must submit their plans to this committee no later than the evening preceding the Tank Scrap.
Upperclassmen shall be barred from participation in the Scrap. 8) The only men, except the members of the contending classes will be the thirty marshals and the physicians.
9) The Tank Scrap shall end all class antagonism between the members of the 1916 and 1917 classes.
(The rules have been edited by the author.)
1910 Debris (Lafayette: The Senior Class of Purdue University, 1910): 358.
Source: "Scrap Committee Makes Blue Laws," Purdue Exponent 25 Second Extra (September 9, 1913): 1.
