This Day in Sports

Bresnahan Debuts Shin Guards, Revolutionizes Catching

April 11, 1907 58

American League Wins

March 16, 1907 59

Dec. 29, 1906: The first IAAUS convention is held at the Murray Hill Hotel in New York City (first report of the Football Rules Committee).

December 29, 1906 52

March 31, 1906: The first constitution and bylaws of the IAAUS are issued.

March 31, 1906 51

1906: Palmer Pierce becomes the Association’s first president, holding office from 1906 to 1913 and from 1917 to 1929. 

January 1, 1906 52

Dec. 28, 1905: A second football reform conference involving 62 football-playing schools is held, resulting in the formation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, the precursor to the NCAA.

December 28, 1905 45

Dec. 9, 1905: Thirteen football-playing schools accept New York University Chancellor Henry M. MacCracken’s invitation to a “reform conference.”

December 9, 1905 48

Oct. 9, 1905: Theodore Roosevelt invites leaders of collegiate football, including representatives of Harvard, Princeton and Yale, to the White House for a discussion on reforming or abolishing the game during a season that produced 18 deaths and 149 serious injuries attributed to the sport.

October 9, 1905 48

Chicago Daily News Makes History

March 27, 1902 47

Charles Comiskey refuse John McGraw

October 13, 2025 52