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We're currently going through some pretty massive changes to the college athletics landscape but today's concerns and issues aren't new.

Over a hundred years ago President Teddy Roosevelt got involved with the dangerous game of football (kids were quite literally dying on the field in the early excruciating rugby-style form of the game) which quickly led to the formation of the now-despised NCAA. For the next few decades the NCAA mainly focused on bringing about coherent (and safer) rules to collegiate games and forming championship contests for some sports.

By the late 1930's--as college football began to grow into Big Business--the talk of serious reforms focusing on student athletes, scholarships, and eligibility were beginning to gain steam. In 1939 the NCAA basically decreed, "student-athletes were amateurs, financial awards should be needs based only" and planned on finding a way to enforce that rule. Then World War II happened.

Two quick points...

1) Athletic scholarships did not exist as we know them today

Hundreds of college football players still went to college w

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Frank Leahy

American college football coach (1908–1973)

For the American physician and surgeon (1880–1953), see Frank Lahey.

Francis William Leahy (August 27, 1908 – June 21, 1973) was an American college football player and coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive. He served as the head football coach at Boston College from 1939 to 1940 and at the University of Notre Dame from 1941 to 1943 and again from 1946 to 1953, compiling a career college football record of 107–13–9. His winning percentage of .864 is the second best in NCAA Division I football history, trailing only that of fellow Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach Knute Rockne, for whom Leahy played from 1928 to 1930. Leahy played on two Notre Dame teams that won national championships, in 1929 and 1930, and coached four more, in 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1949. Leahy was also the athletic director at Notre Dame from 1947 until 1949 when he passed the role to the Fighting Irish basketball coach Moose Krause so that he could focus on football coaching. Leahy served as the general manager for

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Football Head Coach 1941-43, 1946-53

A tackle on Knute Rockne[apos]s last three Notre Dame teams, Leahy graduated
from Notre Dame in 1931. He went to Georgetown as line coach in 1931 and
went to Michigan State the following year to take a similar position. Leahy
took over as line coach at Fordham in 1933 and stayed until 1938 under
Jim Crowley, coaching the famed Seven Blocks of Granite from 1935-37 when
the Rams lost only two combined games. In 1939, he went to Boston College
as head coach for two years, guiding the Eagles to a 20-2 record and a
1941 Sugar Bowl victory. Leahy came to Notre Dame as head coach the next
season. He entered the Navy in 1944 and was discharged as a lieutenant.
He returned to Notre Dame for the 1946 season and stayed until resigning
for health reasons in 1954. While at Notre Dame, Leahy had six undefeated
seasons, five national championship teams and an unbeaten string of 39
games in the late 1940s. He was selected to the National Football Foundation
Hall of Fame in 1970.