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24 Cards in this Set
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First official football game
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1869 Rutgers v Princeton
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Precursor to Ivy League
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1876 Intercollegiate Football Association
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Walter Camp era at Yale
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1876-1909
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Extra curriculum on campuses, football become popular college game
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1880-1900
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Yale grad appointed head fb coach at U of chicago
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Amos Alonzo Stagg, 1892
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Western Conference Established (what did this later become)
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1895, Big 10
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Roosevelt calls meeting at White House with coaches to discuss...
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1905, eliminating excessive violence
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Precursor to NCAA established
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1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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NCAA est.
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1910
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Head coach of Notre Dame 1918
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Knute Rockne
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Stadium construction, 55 built
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1920s
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NFL established, previous name?
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1922, American Professional Football Association
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Who debuted as a pro becfore graduating U of Illinois? What team?
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Red Grange, Chicago Bears
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Who wrote Carnegie Report
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Howard Savage
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Orange, Sugar, Cotton Bowls est. in southern cities, joins Rose Bowl
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1930s
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Jump in college attendence
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1930s, 1.25 mil
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first televised game, when and who
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1939, Fordham, Waynesburg
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When and what: sanity code
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1948, prohibited athletic scholarships (not supported and dwindled away)
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Ivy League Established, stress academics
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1950s
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NCAA allows 4 yr athletic scholarships
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1956, legalized professionalism
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What team fielded black players 1971
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U of Alabama
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NCAA establishes div I III III
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1973, further distinguishes philosophy of big time programs from smaller ones
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Who and where from first college coach to be paid 1 mil/yr
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Bobby Bowden, Florida State, 1995
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Bowl Championship Series est
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1998
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