National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Is A semi-voluntary association of 1.281 institutions, conferences, Organizations and Individuals That The Athletic Programs organizer of Many Colleges and Universities In The United States and Canada. [3] Its headquarters is in. Indianapolis, Indiana .
In August 1973 The current three-division setup of Division I, Division II and Division III WAS ADOPTED By The NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools offer scholarships to athletes Cdn for playing a sport. Division III schools offer May Not "any athletic scholarships. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and small school in II and III. Division I football WAS Further Divided Into IA and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently The term "Division I-AAA" Was Briefly Added to Division I schools delineata Which do not field a football program at all, but thats along Officially term is No Used By The NCAA. [4] In 2006, Divisions IA and I- AA respectivement Were Renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).

HISTORY:

Tthe NCAA has named The first Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) WAS ESTABLISHED on March 31, 1906, to set rules for amateur sports athletic In The United States. When then-President Theodore Roosevelt's own sound, Ted, broke nose playing football history at Harvard, Roosevelt Became Aware Of The Growing Number of Serious Injuries and deaths occurring "in collegiate football. He Brought The presidents of five major institutions, Army (West Point), Navy (Annapolis), Harvard, Princeton and Yale to SEVERAL meetings at the White House in October 1905 to Discuss steps to make college athletics safer. [5] The IAAUS WAS've Created An outcome of Those meetings and Became The National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.

Until the 1980s, The Association did "not offer Women's athletics. Instead annum organization named The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Women's collegiate sports Governed In The United States. By 1982, however, all Division of the NCAA national championship events Offered for women's athletics and MOST membres du AIAW joined The NCAA.

In 2009, Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada Became The NCAA's first non-US member institution.