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<blockquote data-quote="TownesVanZandt_rivals" data-source="post: 131302123" data-attributes="member: 1606648"><p>The NCAA dates its formation to two White House conferences convened by President <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> in the early 20th century in response to repeated injuries and deaths in college football which had &quot;prompted many college and universities to discontinue the sport.&quot;<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association#cite_note-ncaahist-1">[1]</a> Following those White House meetings and the reforms which had resulted, Chancellor <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_MacCracken">Henry MacCracken</a> of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University">New York University</a> organized a meeting of 13 colleges and universities to initiate changes in football playing rules; at a follow-on meeting on December 28, 1905 in New York, 62 higher-education institutions became charter members of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS).<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association#cite_note-ncaahist-1">[1]</a> The IAAUS was officially established on March 31, 1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association#cite_note-ncaahist-1">[1]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="TownesVanZandt_rivals, post: 131302123, member: 1606648"] The NCAA dates its formation to two White House conferences convened by President [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt']Theodore Roosevelt[/URL] in the early 20th century in response to repeated injuries and deaths in college football which had "prompted many college and universities to discontinue the sport."[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association#cite_note-ncaahist-1'][1][/URL] Following those White House meetings and the reforms which had resulted, Chancellor [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_MacCracken']Henry MacCracken[/URL] of [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University']New York University[/URL] organized a meeting of 13 colleges and universities to initiate changes in football playing rules; at a follow-on meeting on December 28, 1905 in New York, 62 higher-education institutions became charter members of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS).[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association#cite_note-ncaahist-1'][1][/URL] The IAAUS was officially established on March 31, 1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association#cite_note-ncaahist-1'][1][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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