The history of American college sports is the story of the NCAA
October 14th, 2010 . by adminIt started with a broken nose.Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.’s broken nose, to be exact. When the president’s son got his snout in a snafu in a college football game, the elder Teddy called together the presidents of five different institutions to deal with the growing issue of safety in school sports. The leaders of those institutionsincluding the military schools of Annapolis and West Point and the now-Ivy-League schools Harvard, Princeton, and Yaleagreed that something must be done, and decided to form a governing body for collegiate sports in 1908. Originally known as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, the organization was renamed to the more-manageable National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910. Read the rest of this entry »
