The first Gopher to play major league baseball was ruled ineligible at the U of M for playing summer ball (just like his older brother had been four years earlier). In fact Dinkytown lost so many player to the summer ball rule that the University of Minnesota shut down baseball from 1915-1921.
From 1915 until 1921 there was no baseball team at the University of Minnesota. In December of 1914 the school senate voted to shut it down. The story of why starts a few years earlier when a pair of brothers in separate incidents were ruled ineligible for playing summer ball.