History of NCAA & Sports in Higher Ed.
Myths of Intercollegiate Athletes
Title IX
Vocab/Key terms
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Name each Division of NCAA

D1, D2, & D3

100

What came to play a prominent role in the transition from intra-college games to inter-college contests

Railroad

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What does the acronym AIAW stand for

Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women

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Name one thing about Division 1 of NCAA (as defined in reading)

D1: Many athletes receive full or partial athletics scholarships that fully cover tuition and room and board. Membership includes approximately 250 colleges and universities

100

What key role does the system of football conferences' affiliation play

Drives perceptions of institutional status 

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Document that remains inaccessible in intercollegiate athletics

A detailed budget

200

Intercollegiate sports grew in line with what American transformation

Industrialization & capitalistic rush

200

What sport has pushed for exemption from Title IX since its creation?

Football

200

What do mission statements reflect?

An institution's characteristics, values, and motives

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What president urged university leaders to develop an organization to bring structure and integrity to intercollegiate athletics

President Roosevelt 

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The formation in 1906 of what association (later to become the National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA]) enabled the college sporting enterprise to realize its full potential by gaining control over the distribution of athletes among competing teams.

Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States

300

When did students start creating their own activities to compensate for strict learning environments

late 18th and early 19th century

300

What was one of the main unintended consequences of Title IX implementation

Universities cutting other men's programs, decreasing football squad sizes

300

What did the Carnegie Report do

Brought to light concerns about the current & future of intercollegiate athletics 

300

TV station that controls much of the narrative because of its broadcasting rights for games

ESPN

400

In 1852, what college met what college in the first American intercollegiate contest

Yale met Harvard

400

How did sports on campuses start? What was their purpose?

Freshman Initiation & mechanism for Hazing Newcomers

400

Title IX is similar and uses language from what other act

Civil Rights Act of 1964

400

The Javits Amendment is also known as...

The Education Amendments of 1974

400

Name of the annual freshman-sophomore class battle that took place on the first Monday of the fall term in the 1800s

"Bloody Monday"

500

The foundations of intercollegiate athletics had been established by what decade?

 the 1870s

500

Name four things that drive competition at every institution

1. Pursuit of revenue

2. Academic Reputation 

3. Status to maintain enrollment 

4. Resources to fulfill the institutional mission

500

When did the AIAW fold

June 1982

500

What did the 1948 Sanity Code intend to do?

Reduce professionalism, commercialism, and exploitation of athletes; brought consequences to institutions that broke these rules

500

Three systemic key movements that helped change the dynamic of the NCAA

1. Separation of NCAA member schools into divisions

2. Title IX increasing the inclusion of women's athletic teams

3. Capitalization of the sports television market

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