Held Between Harvard and Yale in the sport of Crew. Before the NCAA was created, they already had sponsors as this event was sponsored by the Montreal Railroad Company.
Over the next 34 years, the "Father of College Football" hires professional staff, incorporates the "flying wedge", and has control of a large football budget.
Football Safety Concerns. 27 people died from gang tackling. President Roosevelt meets with college officials.
IAAUS is formed... becomes the NCAA in 1910
A game featuring John Heisman (as in the trophy) as the Georgia Tech coach is the most lopsided game in football history. Today college football teams when playing lesser opponents are expected to run up the score for rankings and to help win the Heisman.
Stressing faculty control of college athletics, NCAA Adopts a 10-point code to follow. Amateurism discussed at length. See Sanity Code in 1948.
Read the full 37-page report here.
Two areas heavily criticized in the Carnegie Report: 1. Recruiting 2. Subsidizing athletes. Sound familiar to today?
GI Bill Introduced. Scholarships can now be awarded for non-academic reasons.
"At the 42nd annual NCAA convention held in 1948, the NCAA enacted the “Sanity Code” to “alleviate the proliferation of exploitive practices in the recruitment of student-athletes. The Sanity Code required that financial aid be awarded without consideration for athletics ability. The penalty for violating the Sanity Code was expulsion from the NCAA upon a two-thirds vote of the membership." https://www.scribd.com/document/228501000/NCAA-O-Bannon-Undisputed-Facts
Walter Byers hired on NCAA as NCAA Executive Director... Coins the term "Student Athlete".
Rules enforcement mechanism put in place by the NCAA that remains to this day. Member institutions, coaches, or athletes in violation of NCAA legislation or principles must face NCAA committees and staff charged with investigating and punishing transgressions. Major infractions may lead to substantial penalties for a college or university, including recruiting limitations, loss of athletic scholarships, banishment of teams from competition in championship events, or even disbandment of a team and loss of some NCAA membership privileges. Secondary violations often result in minor penalties that may be determined by the offending institution itself. Violations involving individual prospective or enrolled student athletes are handled through similar mechanisms.
"In 1965, the (National Collegiate Athletic) association established the "1.6 rule," which required universities to limit athletics eligibility to those students who were predicted to get at least a 1.6 grade-point average during their first year in college."
Texas Western (featuring 5 black players starting) beats Kentucky in the NCAA men's basketball championship game. The movie "Glory Road" is based on the events of this game.
USC Beats Alabama 42-12. Was it really the push that pushed the desegregation for the SEC?
On June 23, 1972, the President signed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
NCAA bans multi-year scholarships in 1973.
Division I football divides into two different divisions
Highest TV ratings for a sporting event (at the time) the NCAA Men's basketball Final played between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
Jackie Sherill hired at Texas A&M: Becomes Highest Paid University Employee in the country.
NCAA First TV Contract with CBS Sports. 1982 was the first year that CBS broadcasts the Selection show.
NCAA takes over the governance of NCAA Women's Sports. AIAW had a $400,000 with NBC Sports to cover the final.
American Council of Education brings recommendations to the NCAA convention in 1984.
NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, 468 U.S. 85 (1984), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) television plan violated the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts. These antitrust laws were designed to prohibit group actions that restrained open competition and trade.
Prop 48 leads to Proposition 16 in 1992.
"In National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) v. Tarkanian (1988), the U.S. Supreme Court held that threatened NCAA sanctions against the head basketball coach of a public university did not constitute state action, even though the university was a member of the NCAA, and thus the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s actions did not violate the coach’s civil rights."
A near upset of #16 over a #1 seed results in an increase interest in the NCAA Men's basketball tournament
The commission’s 1991 report, Keeping Faith with the Student Athlete, called for presidential control of intercollegiate athletics to ensure academic and fiscal integrity verified through a transparent certification process.
In August 1991, NBC signed a five-year broadcasting contract with the University of Notre Dame, worth $38 million.
Alabama beats Florida 28-21 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama in front of 83,000 fans.
"The Drake Group was founded in 1999 when Jon Ericson, a former professor and provost at Drake University, invited a distinguished group of college faculty, authors, and activists to a twenty-four-hour think tank in how to end academic corruption in college sport."
A ten-year review of progress made since the original Commission report, calling for a stronger commitment to academic standards in college sports.
The Academic Progress Rate is a measure introduced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to track student-athletes chances of graduation. "The Academic Progress Rate (APR) is a term-by-term measure of eligibility and retention for Division I student-athletes that was developed as an early indicator of eventual graduation rates (NCAA.org)."
1st Annual CSRI Conference held at the University of Memphis. 2009-2013 held at UNC Chapel Hill; Held at USC in Columbia, SC since 2014.
"This report aims to set forth reforms that are achievable and that, if implemented, will create a foundation upon which future reforms can build. Our blueprint for restoring educational values and priorities begins with strengthening accountability for athletics programs in three ways: requiring greater transparency and the reporting of better measures to compare athletics spending to academic spending; rewarding practices that make academic values a priority; treating college athletes as students first and foremost -- not as professionals."
College Sport Research Institute releases its annual report
Documentary focusing on the business of college sports airs on PBS. Features interviews with NCAA Commissioner Mark Emmert, Sonny Vaccarro, and Ed O'Bannon.
"The Longhorn Network features events from 20 different sports involving the Texas Longhorns athletics department, along with original and historical programming." Source:
Taylor Branch's often cited piece on college sports is published in "The Atlantic"
Hoping to get past some of the controversy surrounding, four teams play in two semifinal games, and the winners advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship. This event is not officially sanctioned by the NCAA.
O'Bannon v. NCAA is an antitrust class action lawsuit filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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