Centennial moments, 1910-35

 The following events helped shape the NCAA from 1910 through 1935.

• 1914 (November 21) — The Yale Bowl opens with the football game between Yale University and Harvard University. 
• 1916 — Brown University’s Frederick “Fritz” Pollard becomes the first African-American named to an all-American team in football.
• 1918 — Future actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson concludes his athletics career at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, where he earned 15 varsity letters in four sports and was selected as a football all-American.
• 1921 (June 17-18) — The first NCAA-sponsored championship, the National Collegiate Track and Field Championships, is conducted at the University of Chicago. Forty-five teams participate. 
• 1922 (December 28) — The NCAA adopts a 10-point code (conferences, amateurism, freshman rule, ban on playing pro football, three-year participation, no graduate students, faculty control, anti-betting, ban on playing for noncollegiate teams).
• 1924 (April 11-12) — The first National Collegiate Swimming Championships are conducted at the U.S. Naval Academy.
• 1928 (March 30-31) — The first National Collegiate Wrestling Championships are conducted at Iowa State University. Oklahoma A&M University (now Oklahoma State) wins the first of 10 team titles between 1928 and 1940 under coach E.C. “Ed” Gallagher.
• 1931 (December 31) — The first “round table conferences” are conducted at the NCAA Convention.
•  1935 (June 21-22) — Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens becomes the first (and remains the only) student-athlete to win four individual titles in one year at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (held at the University of California, Berkeley); a year later, he repeats the feat (in Chicago) to become the first and only athlete to win eight career outdoor individual titles.