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SPMT 217 Exam 2 VOCAB
Intercollegiate Football Association - answer✔✔An athletic association formed in 1876 and
made up of students from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia who agreed on consistent
playing and eligibility rules for football.
Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives - answer✔✔a.k.a The Big Ten Conference
1895, college and university faculty representatives create student eligibility rules for football.
100-year tradition of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics and
emphasize the values of integrity, fairness, and competitiveness in all aspects of student-athletes
lives.
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) - answer✔✔Became the
NCAA in 1912
1905 by 62 colleges and universities to formulate rules making football safer and more exciting
to play
Carnegie Reports of 1929 - answer✔✔Documents by the Carnegie Foundation that examined
intercollegiate athletics and identified many academic abuses, recruiting abuses, payments to
student-athletes, and commercialization of athletics. These reports pressured the NCAA to
evolve from a group that developed rules for competition into an organization for overseeing all
aspects of intercollegiate athletics.
Knight Commission - answer✔✔A commission created in 1989 by the Trustees of the Knight
Foundation, composed of university presidents, CEOs and presidents of corporations, and a
congressional representative, to propose a reform agenda for intercollegiate athletics.
Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) - answer✔✔forerunner for
Association for the Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW)
A governance organization for women's athletics created in 1966
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) - answer✔✔Athletic governance
organization for small colleges and universities, 1940
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) - answer✔✔Athletic association founded
in 1937 to promote and supervise a national program of junior college sports and activites
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Division 1 - answer✔✔Subgroup of NCAA institutions that, in general, supports philosophy of
competitiveness, generating revenue through athletics, and national success, offer scholarships
Division 2 - answer✔✔Subgroup of NCAA institutions that, in general, attracts student-athletes
from the local or in-state area, who may receive some scholarship but not usually full amount
Division 3 - answer✔✔Subgroup of NCAA institutions that, in general, does not allow
scholarships, encourages participation by maximising the number and variety of opp. avaliable.
Experience of athletes not spectators
one-school/one-vote - answer✔✔A structure of organization in the NCAA from 1973 to 1997 in
which each member school and conference had one vote at the NCAA's annual convention,
which was assigned to the institution's president or CEO.
NCAA National Office - answer✔✔The main office of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, located in Indianapolis, Indiana; it enforces the rules the NCAA membership passes
and provides administrative services to all NCAA committees, member institutions, and
conferences.
Enforcement - answer✔✔Area within NCAA admin. structure created in 52 that deals with
enforcing rules and regulations
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) - answer✔✔A category of Division I institutions that are large
football-playing schools; they must meet minimum attendance requirements for football.
Formerly known as Division I-A.
Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) - answer✔✔A category of Division I institutions that
play football at a level below that of Division I-A; they are not held to any attendance
requirements. Formerly known as Division I-AA.
member conferences - answer✔✔Groupings of institutions within the NCAA that provide many
benefits and services to their members. Conferences have legislative power over their member
institutions in the running of championship events and the formulation of conference rules and
regulations. Member conferences must have a minimum of six member institutions within a
single division to be recognized as a voting member conference of the NCAA.
Conference rules - answer✔✔Standards set forth by particular conferences that require member
institutions to abide by, in addition to NCAA regulation.
Conference Realignment - answer✔✔A school wanting to join a conference or change
conference affiliation. An issue that occurs periodically, effectively changing the landscape of
college athletics.
SPMT 217 Exam 2 VOCAB
Intercollegiate Football Association - answer✔✔An athletic association formed in 1876 and
made up of students from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia who agreed on consistent
playing and eligibility rules for football.
Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives - answer✔✔a.k.a The Big Ten Conference
1895, college and university faculty representatives create student eligibility rules for football.
100-year tradition of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics and
emphasize the values of integrity, fairness, and competitiveness in all aspects of student-athletes
lives.
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) - answer✔✔Became the
NCAA in 1912
1905 by 62 colleges and universities to formulate rules making football safer and more exciting
to play
Carnegie Reports of 1929 - answer✔✔Documents by the Carnegie Foundation that examined
intercollegiate athletics and identified many academic abuses, recruiting abuses, payments to
student-athletes, and commercialization of athletics. These reports pressured the NCAA to
evolve from a group that developed rules for competition into an organization for overseeing all
aspects of intercollegiate athletics.
Knight Commission - answer✔✔A commission created in 1989 by the Trustees of the Knight
Foundation, composed of university presidents, CEOs and presidents of corporations, and a
congressional representative, to propose a reform agenda for intercollegiate athletics.
Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) - answer✔✔forerunner for
Association for the Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW)
A governance organization for women's athletics created in 1966
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) - answer✔✔Athletic governance
organization for small colleges and universities, 1940
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) - answer✔✔Athletic association founded
in 1937 to promote and supervise a national program of junior college sports and activites
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Division 1 - answer✔✔Subgroup of NCAA institutions that, in general, supports philosophy of
competitiveness, generating revenue through athletics, and national success, offer scholarships
Division 2 - answer✔✔Subgroup of NCAA institutions that, in general, attracts student-athletes
from the local or in-state area, who may receive some scholarship but not usually full amount
Division 3 - answer✔✔Subgroup of NCAA institutions that, in general, does not allow
scholarships, encourages participation by maximising the number and variety of opp. avaliable.
Experience of athletes not spectators
one-school/one-vote - answer✔✔A structure of organization in the NCAA from 1973 to 1997 in
which each member school and conference had one vote at the NCAA's annual convention,
which was assigned to the institution's president or CEO.
NCAA National Office - answer✔✔The main office of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, located in Indianapolis, Indiana; it enforces the rules the NCAA membership passes
and provides administrative services to all NCAA committees, member institutions, and
conferences.
Enforcement - answer✔✔Area within NCAA admin. structure created in 52 that deals with
enforcing rules and regulations
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) - answer✔✔A category of Division I institutions that are large
football-playing schools; they must meet minimum attendance requirements for football.
Formerly known as Division I-A.
Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) - answer✔✔A category of Division I institutions that
play football at a level below that of Division I-A; they are not held to any attendance
requirements. Formerly known as Division I-AA.
member conferences - answer✔✔Groupings of institutions within the NCAA that provide many
benefits and services to their members. Conferences have legislative power over their member
institutions in the running of championship events and the formulation of conference rules and
regulations. Member conferences must have a minimum of six member institutions within a
single division to be recognized as a voting member conference of the NCAA.
Conference rules - answer✔✔Standards set forth by particular conferences that require member
institutions to abide by, in addition to NCAA regulation.
Conference Realignment - answer✔✔A school wanting to join a conference or change
conference affiliation. An issue that occurs periodically, effectively changing the landscape of
college athletics.
