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   NCAA a juggernaut sports world. Home to march madness and the football national championship. The gateway to the pros. But has the NCAA gone to far. It wasn't always the the big corporation it is now.  Inter collegiate sports in the U.S began in 1852. It was between groups of Yale and Harvard. They competed in a race of rowing. In the 1800 rowing was the top sport at the time. The organizations in charge of athletic eligibility were the Rowing Association Of American Colleges And the Intercollegiate  Rowing Association. The first collegiate baseball game was played in 1859 between Amherst and Williams. The first football game was played in 1969 between Rutgers and Princeton. The first football game was a soccer game. The football we know now was an alteration of rugby. The core were then put in the early 20th century. The NCAA was formed in 1906. It was composed of 63 schools. It was formed because their was no administrative control. Students would miss class to go to games or be in one class to be eligible. The growth in women sports was different than males. Women were limited to sports they could play. The only options they had were croquet, archery and tennis. Their sports were taken seriously they were looked as hobbies a way to promote good health towards women. Then it expanded to bowling, boating, ice skating, archery, swimming and horseback riding. By the 1890's women were allowed to play basketball, tennis volleyball golf track and field and field hockey. 1920's and 1930's grew even thought societies thoughts were that some sports women were playing were to masculine. The discrimination stopped in 1972 when passage of title IX was created which stated that their should be no discrimination.

      Now the NCAA has expanded. Division 1,2,3 were created in 19 The NCAA is now home to 1281 schools and 450,000 students. There is 11 division one conferences. The NCAA currently awards 89 national championships. 44 of those championships go towards women and 42 go towards the men. There is one coed championship for fencing rifle and skiing. 88 of those championships are televised. NCAA television contracts with CBS sports, CBS sports network, ESPN, ESPN Plus and Turner sports.  ESPN holds the rights to 21 championships. CBS holds the rights to 67. Turner hold 1.To participate in college athletics a freshman must meet 3 requirements. They must graduate from high school. Complete the minimum required academic courses. They also have to meet the required GPA SAT ACT scores. The 16 academic credits are four courses in English, two courses in math, two classes in social science, two in natural or physical science, and one additional course in English, math, natural or physical science, or another academic course such as a foreign language. To meet the requirements for grade point average and SAT scores students the lowest possible GPA a student may be eligible with is a 1.700 with an SAT score of 1400. The lowest SAT score a student may be eligible with is 700 with a GPA of 2.500. If a violation is refereed to the NCAA they will start their own investigation.The biggest punishment NCAA This  shows the sponsor the NCAA has

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