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Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest college athletic conference. Its member institutions are located in the northern United States, stretching from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I-A in football. Member schools of the Big Ten conference are also members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium. Despite the conference's name, since Penn State joined in 1990, there have been eleven schools in the Big Ten, as signified by the hidden "11" in the Big Ten Conference logo.

The conference's current member schools, ordered by length of continuous membership and alphabetically by each university's common name, are:

  • University of Illinois (co-founder 1896)
  • The University of Minnesota (co-founder 1896)
  • Northwestern University (co-founder 1896)
  • Purdue University (co-founder 1896)
  • University of Wisconsin (co-founder 1896)
  • Indiana University (joined 1899)
  • The University of Iowa (joined 1899)
  • The Ohio State University at Columbus (joined 1912)
  • The University of Michigan (co-founder 1896, withdrew 1908, rejoined 1917)
  • Michigan State University (joined 1950, began play 1953)
  • The Pennsylvania State University (joined 1990, began play 1993)

Former member of the conference:

  • The University of Chicago (co-founder 1896, withdrew 1946)

Attended 1895 meeting but was not a member of the conference:

  • Lake Forest College

The Big Ten is the only conference to have all of its member institutions affiliated with the Association of American Universities, a prestigious collection of 60 research institutions, and leads all conferences in the total amount of research expenditures.

Member schools participate in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, rowing, men's and women's soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, women's volleyball and wrestling.

History

A meeting of seven Midwest university presidents on January 11, 1895 at the Palmer House in Chicago to discuss the regulation and control of intercollegiate athletics. Those seven men, behind the leadership of James H. Smart, president of Purdue University, established the principles for which the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, more popularly known as the Big Ten Conference, would be founded on the next year 1896.

Those seven universities were: University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Lake Forest College, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin. Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting that established the Conference, it was replaced by the University of Michigan.

At the 1895 meeting, a blueprint for the control and administration of college athletics under the direction of appointed faculty representatives was outlined. The presidents' first-known action "restricted eligibility for athletics to bonafide, full-time students who were not delinquent in their studies." This helped limit some problems of the times, especially the participation of professional athletes and "non-students" in the university's regular sporting events.

The Big Ten was founded in 1896 as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. The founding member schools included six current members as well as the University of Chicago.The first reference to the conference as The Big Nine was in 1899 after Iowa and Indiana had joined. The first reference to the conference as the Big Ten was in 1917 after Michigan rejoined following a 9-year absence; Ohio State had been added in 1912.

The conference was again known as the Big Nine after the University of Chicago decided to deemphasize varsity athletics just after World War II. Chicago discontinued its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the Conference in 1946. Chicago to this day continues its relationship with the conference as a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the "academic Big Ten". In 1950, Michigan State joined and the conference was again known as the Big Ten. The Big Ten's membership would remain stable for the next 40 years.

The conference’s official name throughout the time was still the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives and was also known as the Western Conference. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1987 when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation. When Penn State joined in the early 1990s, it was decided that the conference would continue to be called the Big Ten, but its logo was modified to reflect the change; the number 11 is disguised in the white areas of the traditionally blue "Big Ten" lettering.

Following the addition of previously independent Penn State, efforts were made to encourage the University of Notre Dame, the last remaining traditionally independent football powerhouse, to join the league. The conference extended a formal invitation to Notre Dame in 1999. Although the Notre Dame faculty senate endorsed the idea, the board of trustees voted against joining the conference and Notre Dame ultimately declined the Big Ten's invitation.[1] Though the idea has been revisited in the wake of the Atlantic Coast Conference's expansion to 12 teams, neither Notre Dame nor the Big Ten has taken any official action in pursuit of Notre Dame's membership. Notre Dame later joined the Big East conference in all sports except football, men's lacrosse, and men's hockey.

Commissioners

The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1922 "to study athletic problems of the various member universities and assist in enforcing the eligibility rules which govern Big Ten athletics."

  • Major John L. Griffith 1922-1944 (Died)
  • Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson 1944-1961 (Retired)
  • Bill Reed 1961-1971 (Died)
  • Wayne Duke 1971-1989 (Retired)
  • James E. Delany 1989-

Rivalries

Big Ten Football

The members of the Big Ten have long-standing rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. Many of them have travelling trophies at stake. The annual Michigan-Ohio State matchup at the end of the season (which has no trophy at stake) is probably the most well-known Big Ten rivalry (arguably one of the biggest in all of U.S. sports). Some other Big Ten rivalries include (with their respective travelling trophy in parentheses):

  • Illinois-Northwestern (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk)
  • Purdue-Indiana (Old Oaken Bucket)
  • Indiana-Michigan State (Old Brass Spittoon)
  • Iowa-Minnesota (Floyd of Rosedale)
  • Iowa-Wisconsin (Heartland Trophy)
  • Wisconsin-Minnesota (Paul Bunyan's Axe)
  • Michigan-Michigan State (Paul Bunyan Trophy)
  • Michigan-Minnesota (Little Brown Jug)
  • Illinois-Ohio State (Illibuck)
  • Illinois-Purdue (Purdue Cannon)
  • Penn State-Minnesota (Governor's Victory Bell)
  • Penn State-Michigan State (Land Grant Trophy)

As of 2006, the Big Ten champion has the Rose Bowl (a BCS bowl) tie in, and the following non-BCS bowl tie ins (picks are after BCS selections, i.e., if two Big Ten teams participate in BCS bowls, the bowl with the #1 pick will select the third team):

  • Capital One Bowl: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #1 pick against SEC #1 pick)
  • Outback Bowl: Tampa, Florida (Big Ten #2 pick against SEC #2 pick)
  • Alamo Bowl: San Antonio, Texas (Big Ten #3 pick against Big 12 #3 pick)
  • Champs Sports Bowl: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #4 pick against ACC #3 pick)
  • Insight Bowl: Tempe, Arizona (Big Ten #5 pick against Big 12 #5 pick)
  • Motor City Bowl: Detroit, Michigan (Big Ten #6 pick against MAC)

Notice that while the pick order usually corresponds to the standings in the conference, bowls do not have to pick according to the standings. Many factors influence bowl selections, including the turnout of the fans for past bowl games.

Big Ten Men's Basketball

The Big Ten has always been a national powerhouse in men's basketball, having multiple championship winners and often sending four or more teams to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The most recent NCAA title was in 2000, when Michigan State University won the men's tournament for the second time (also in 1979). Previous NCAA champions include Indiana with 5 titles, and Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State each with one title. Illinois is also a perennial powerhouse.

  • Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Other Rivalries

Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan are among the Big Ten teams who also have traditional rivalries with Notre Dame. Penn State had a long-standing rivalry with Pittsburgh of the Big East, but the two schools have not met since 2000. Penn State also had long-standing rivalries with West Virginia, Syracuse, and Rutgers of the Big East, Maryland and Boston College of the ACC, and football independent Temple. Penn State also had a rivalry with Notre Dame in the 1980s and early 1990s, which was ended when Penn State moved to the Big Ten, although the two schools will renew the series with a home-and-home series in 2006 at Notre Dame Stadium and in 2007 at Beaver Stadium. Iowa has an in-state rivalry with Iowa State, with the winner getting the Cy-Hawk Trophy. Indiana has an out-of conference rivalry with Kentucky, but the rivalry has a much higher profile in basketball than in football. Illinois has a long-standing basketball rivalry with Missouri, with the two men's teams squaring off annually in the "Braggin' Rights" game in St. Louis. In the early days of the Big Ten, the Chicago-Michigan game was played on Thanksgiving, usually with conference championship implications and was considered one of the first major rivalries of the conference.

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The conference extended a formal invitation to Notre Dame in 1999. Following the addition of previously independent Penn State, efforts were made to encourage the University of Notre Dame, the last remaining traditionally independent football powerhouse, to join the league. When Penn State joined in the early 1990s, it was decided that the conference would continue to be called the Big Ten, but its logo was modified to reflect the change; the number 11 is disguised in the white areas of the traditionally blue "Big Ten" lettering. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1987 when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation.

The conference’s official name throughout the time was still the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives and was also known as the Western Conference. The Big Ten's membership would remain stable for the next 40 years. In 1950, Michigan State joined and the conference was again known as the Big Ten. Chicago to this day continues its relationship with the conference as a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the "academic Big Ten".

Chicago discontinued its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the Conference in 1946. The conference was again known as the Big Nine after the University of Chicago decided to deemphasize varsity athletics just after World War II. The first reference to the conference as the Big Ten was in 1917 after Michigan rejoined following a 9-year absence; Ohio State had been added in 1912. The founding member schools included six current members as well as the University of Chicago.The first reference to the conference as The Big Nine was in 1899 after Iowa and Indiana had joined.

The Big Ten was founded in 1896 as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. The presidents' first-known action "restricted eligibility for athletics to bonafide, full-time students who were not delinquent in their studies." This helped limit some problems of the times, especially the participation of professional athletes and "non-students" in the university's regular sporting events. At the 1895 meeting, a blueprint for the control and administration of college athletics under the direction of appointed faculty representatives was outlined. Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting that established the Conference, it was replaced by the University of Michigan.

Those seven universities were: University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Lake Forest College, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin. Smart, president of Purdue University, established the principles for which the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, more popularly known as the Big Ten Conference, would be founded on the next year 1896. Those seven men, behind the leadership of James H. A meeting of seven Midwest university presidents on January 11, 1895 at the Palmer House in Chicago to discuss the regulation and control of intercollegiate athletics.

. Member schools participate in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, rowing, men's and women's soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, women's volleyball and wrestling. The Big Ten is the only conference to have all of its member institutions affiliated with the Association of American Universities, a prestigious collection of 60 research institutions, and leads all conferences in the total amount of research expenditures. Attended 1895 meeting but was not a member of the conference:.

Former member of the conference:. The conference's current member schools, ordered by length of continuous membership and alphabetically by each university's common name, are:. Despite the conference's name, since Penn State joined in 1990, there have been eleven schools in the Big Ten, as signified by the hidden "11" in the Big Ten Conference logo. Member schools of the Big Ten conference are also members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium.

The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I-A in football. Its member institutions are located in the northern United States, stretching from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest college athletic conference. Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament.

Motor City Bowl: Detroit, Michigan (Big Ten #6 pick against MAC). Insight Bowl: Tempe, Arizona (Big Ten #5 pick against Big 12 #5 pick). Champs Sports Bowl: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #4 pick against ACC #3 pick). Alamo Bowl: San Antonio, Texas (Big Ten #3 pick against Big 12 #3 pick).

Outback Bowl: Tampa, Florida (Big Ten #2 pick against SEC #2 pick). Capital One Bowl: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #1 pick against SEC #1 pick). Penn State-Michigan State (Land Grant Trophy). Penn State-Minnesota (Governor's Victory Bell).

Illinois-Purdue (Purdue Cannon). Illinois-Ohio State (Illibuck). Michigan-Minnesota (Little Brown Jug). Michigan-Michigan State (Paul Bunyan Trophy).

Wisconsin-Minnesota (Paul Bunyan's Axe). Iowa-Wisconsin (Heartland Trophy). Iowa-Minnesota (Floyd of Rosedale). Indiana-Michigan State (Old Brass Spittoon).

Purdue-Indiana (Old Oaken Bucket). Illinois-Northwestern (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk). Delany 1989-. James E.

Wayne Duke 1971-1989 (Retired). Bill Reed 1961-1971 (Died). "Tug" Wilson 1944-1961 (Retired). Kenneth L.

Griffith 1922-1944 (Died). Major John L. Lake Forest College. The University of Chicago (co-founder 1896, withdrew 1946).

The Pennsylvania State University (joined 1990, began play 1993). Michigan State University (joined 1950, began play 1953). The University of Michigan (co-founder 1896, withdrew 1908, rejoined 1917). The Ohio State University at Columbus (joined 1912).

The University of Iowa (joined 1899). Indiana University (joined 1899). University of Wisconsin (co-founder 1896). Purdue University (co-founder 1896).

Northwestern University (co-founder 1896). The University of Minnesota (co-founder 1896). University of Illinois (co-founder 1896).