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Intercollegiate Athletic Association Formation
President Roosevelt and others formed the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States. -
NCAA Formed
The IAAUS is renamed to National College Athletic Association, also known as the NCAA. -
Death Report Abandoned
Delegates vote to abandon football death report given to committee members at every convention since 1906. The committee who was in charge of the fatalities at the Universities were discontinued. -
Rules Committees and Coverage Expansion
With more coverage of sports, more rules were needed, which led to the Rules Committee being established. -
First Radio Broadcast
The first radio broadcast of collegiate football game between Texas University and the Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M) -
First NCAA Championship is held
The first NCAA Championship is held for Track and Field. It took place in Chicago. However, women were not included, only men. -
Ten-Point Code and NCAA Council Established
The NCAA Council approved the Ten-Point code. It reiterated and reemphasizing long-held principles and objectives, sectional conferences, the freshmen rule, a three-year participation limit, a prohibition of graduate students, suppression of the "betting evil" and absolute faculty control. The fundamental principle was still amateurism. -
First Televised Intercollegiate Game
The Princeton and Colombia baseball game is aired on NBC. -
Executive Committee given power
The NCAA convention gave the Executive Committee investigative and interpretive powers. -
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World War 2
The college athletic facilities were used by the military for training purposes. -
GI Bill is created
After World War II the GI Bill was created to send hundreds of thousands of veteran students to school, and with them came an expanded sense of importance of financial aid for college students. The sports pages once again were trumpeted (and criticized) the college game. Gambling scandals were back, or at least looming around. -
Sanity Code
The NCAA's 42nd convention adopted the "Principles for the Conduct of Intercollegiate Athletics". These five principles reformulated the old amateur ethos. Covering financial aid, recruitment, academic standards for athletes, institutional controls, and the principle of amateurism itself. This became known as the "Sanity Code". -
The NAIB opened games to Black Players
The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB) was formed out in 1940. In 1948, black players were able to play. -
Seven Universities Found Guilty
Seven universities were found guilty of code violations but the 2/3rds majority vote was not obtained to expel these schools out of the NCAA
