Sport Timeline
| Event Date |
Title |
|---|---|
| 1976 |
ABA-NBA Merger The American Basketball Association merged with National Basketball Association. |
| 1974 |
The Women's Sports Foundation is formed. Organization founded in 1974 by tennis legend Billie Jean King. Its stated mission statement is "To advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity." |
| 1974 |
The Women's Sports Foundation is formed. Organization founded in 1974 by tennis legend Billie Jean King. Its stated mission statement is "To advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity." |
| 1972 |
Munich Summer Olympics: Terrorist Massacre During the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics 8 men showed up and killed 11 Israeli olympians.This was considered the darkest day in olpympian history. |
| 1972 |
Title IX "In June 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., into law. Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. The principle objective of Title... |
| 1971 |
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Founded AIAW was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships. It evolved out of the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (founded in 1967). The association was one of the biggest advancements for women's athletics on... |
| 1968 |
demonstration at the Olympics unified black and white athletes The integration of college and professional sports in the U.S. went hand in hand with the Black assertiveness that began during World War II. And if the period 1960-62 is called the Civil Rights Era and the Second Reconstruction, those nomenclatures were most dramatically demonstrated in the... |
| 1968 |
Special Olympics Begins The 1st International Special Olympic Summer Games was made up of 1000 athletes from 26 U.S. States and Canada. The Athletes Competed in Track and Field, Swimming, and Floor Hockey. The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games are held in Athens, Greece. Nearly 7,000 athletes from 170... |
| 1968 | Special Olympics begins |
| 1967 | First Super bowl |
| 1967 |
Men's Basketball On February 1, 1967 the American Basketball Association (ABA) was formed and consisted of 11 teams. The league lasted less than ten years and folded under financial struggles. Four of the remaining ABA teams joined the NBA. |
| 1962 |
Men's Basketball March 2, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game. With 46 seconds left in the game Chamberlain scored once more to get to the 100 point mark. It is believed that the last seconds of the game were not even played due to the large amount of fans who stormed the court. |
| 1954 |
Brown v. Board of Education An incredibly important court decision that declared separating blacks and whites in public schools unconstitutional. It also granted black students equal educational opportunities as white students. |
| 1953 |
Women's Basketball March 1953, The U.S. Women's Basketball team competed in the first world championship for women and came home with the gold. The team battled Chile in the championship game defeating them 49-36. |
| 1952 |
NAIA Formation In 1952, as a result of the expressed desires of the member institutions, appropriate steps were taken by which the NAIB was transformed into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the first all-encompassing set of rules and standards was adopted. Recommendations to... |
| 1952 |
NCAA legalizes athletic scholarships Scholarships was legalized was for the purpose of attracting qualified student-athletes. Other athletic associations were established and they, along with the NCAA, began to regulate national college athletic standards. These associations and school administrators have instituted rules and... |
| 1950 |
National Athletic Trainers Association founded The National Athletic Trainers Association currently has over 30,000 members worldwide. It was set up to provide a set of standards for professionalism, education, certification, research, and practice settings in the athletic training field. |
| 1947 |
Formation of the Federation International Volleyball (FIVB) In 1947 14 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Uruguay, USA and Yugoslavia) all met to form the FIVB as the highest governing body for the sport of volleyball. Including beach, indoor, and grass volleyball. |
| 1947 |
Jackie Robinson Signs a Major League Contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers Jackie Robenson was the first African American to be in the major leagues. his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation. In the US people believed that black and whites should be segragated and kept apart. |
| 1947 |
Professional Baseball In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers making him the first African American major league baseball player. This was a big step for the league because during this time many people thought that blacks and whites should still be segregated. |
| 1946 |
Color Barrier officially broken Although a few black players had been allowed to play professional sports before 1946, it was not until Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to play major league baseball that the racial barrier broke in all professional sports. Because of this event, Jackie Robinson is... |
| 1946 |
NBA was formed The NBA was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. It adopted the name National Basketball Association in the fall of 1949 after adding several teams from the rival National Basketball League.The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the premier basketball league in the... |
| 1943 |
Womens Professional Baseball League was established Girls professional baseball was established primarily as a substitute form of entertainment while the professional male players were off fighting a war.The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was established with four teams and eventually grew to eight teams, but it disbanded in 1954... |
| 1939 |
First Mens NCAA Basketball Championship On March 17, 1939 the first NCAA mens basketball tournament began in Evanston Illinois. Only eight teams competed for the championship and there were only two rounds of offsite playoffs before the "Final Two" game was held at Northwestern. On March 27th, the Oregon Ducks and Ohio State Buckeyes... |
| 1939 |
Little League Baseball Little League’s roots extend as far as baseball’s history itself – even into the 18th century. Soldiers of the Continental Army played ball at Valley Forge during the American Revolution. U.S. citizens played more modern versions of the British games of cricket and rounders through the... |