  It is shown that both the universal coupling of the rho-meson and the
Kawarabayashi-Suzuki-Riadzuddin-Fayyazuddin expression for the magnitude of its
coupling constant follow from the requirement that chiral perturbation theory
of pions, nucleons, and rho-mesons is a consistent effective field theory. The
prerequisite of the derivation is that all ultraviolet divergences can be
absorbed in the redefinition of fields and the available parameters of the most
general effective Lagrangian.
