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College athletics refers primarily to sports and games organized and sanctioned by institutions of tertiary education (colleges in American English). In the United States, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics regulate college sports in that sense. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ... The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (better known as the NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. ...

Yet competition between student clubs from different colleges, not organized by and therefore not representing the institutions or their faculties, may also be called "intercollegiate" or simply college sport(s). College sports originated as student activities and it is probably reasonable to periodize the history, otherwise organized by region or institution or sport, first according to whether the students or the institutions organized the clubs and the competition.

In the United States today, many college sports are popular locally, where they may provide the best quality competition people can see personally, and the same is true of school sports in smaller locales. But some college sports are immensely popular nationally, competing with professional championships for prime broadcast and print coverage, serving fans who attend few or no games but tune in or read about them much as they follow professional games. So-called Interuniversity Sport has a lower profile in Canada. In most of the rest of the world the equivalent level of competition is only followed by competitors and their close friends and families. Still, the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race may be the model and it is immensely popular spectator sport today. CIS Logo Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. ... Boat Race Logo Exhausted crews at the finish of the 2002 Boat Race The Boat Race is a rowing race between the rowing clubs of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. ...

Clubs

Yale and Harvard rowing clubs matched up for the first time in 1852, twenty-three years after the first Oxford-Cambridge contest. Baseball teams from Amherst College and Williams College in Western Massachusetts played the earliest known intercollegiate game in 1859. The base ball club at Brown University in Providence may have been founded in 1863. At Harvard College, the class of 1866 introduced New York baseball, essentially the modern game, in Fall 1862. They played among themselves and played against younger class teams before establishing a college club, supporting a team of players from all classes in 1865(?). Yale redirects here. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is an accredited private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Location Location in Rhode Island Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Rhode Island Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 20. ...