NCAA News Archive - 2007
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The NCAA national office was in the Midland Building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, in 1962. Photo by Marcia Stubbeman/NCAA News.
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The NCAA News
Three years ago
February 4, 2004 — The NCAA announces an agreement with the Indiana Sports Corporation making Indianapolis the permanent “backup site” for the Men’s and Women’s Final Fours in case of an emergency that requires those events to be relocated.
10 years ago
January 30, 1997 — The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics recommends to the NCAA Council guidelines for identifying emerging sports. The group recommends that sports designated as emerging be given 10 years to become championship sports.
January 1997 — Kenneth A. Shaw, chancellor at Syracuse University, is elected as the first chair of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors during the 1997 NCAA Convention.
15 years ago:
1992 — Division II conference commissioners during the 1992 NCAA Convention establish their own governing body and elect Bob Vanatta, commissioner of the Sunshine State Conference, as chair.
45 years ago
February 1962 — The NCAA national headquarters office in Kansas City, Missouri, completes its first decade. The office staff at the time includes four administrators: Executive Director Walter Byers, Wayne Duke, Charles Neinas and Arthur J. Bergstrom.
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