GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2012 The Age of Innocence: The First 25 Years of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1906 to 1931 W. Burlette Carter George Washington University Law School,
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[email protected]. VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT AND TECHNOLOGY LAW _________________________________________________________________ VOLUME 8 SPRING 2006 NUMBER 2 _________________________________________________________________ The Age of Innocence: The First 25 Years of The National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1906 to 1931 W. Burlette Carter* In 2006, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”), the most powerful body in intercollegiate athletics, celebrates its 100th anniversary. In this article, the author undertakes to survey the NCAA’s first twenty five years,1 offering a revealing snapshot of the beginning of intercollegiate athletics in the United States. As with the author’s prior articles on this subject, this article continues the unique approach of using the proceedings of the NCAA and contemporaneous media articles to make its case. In so doing, the article challenges commonly held assumptions about the origins of present intercollegiate * Professor of Law, the George Washington University Law School, J.D.