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The Indiana Intercollegiate Conference (IIC) was an American college athletic conference formed in 1922 to govern intercollegiate competition in male sports in the state of Indiana.

The IIC was the third state-based collegiate athletic conference attempted in Indiana, after the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAA) and the Indiana College Athletic League (ICAL), but had many more members than its predecessors. The size and diversity of the IIC made it a loosely-constructed organization and doomed it to fail in the long run. Most of its members ended up joining the Hoosier College Conference (established 1947) or the Indiana Collegiate Conference (established 1950).

Founding

The official founding of the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference occurred at a meeting held on December 9, 1922, at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis.[1] The 17 charter members were Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Ball State, Butler, DePauw, Earlham, Evansville, Franklin, Hanover, Indiana Dental College, Indiana State, Manchester, the Normal College of the American Gymnastics Union (NCAGU),[2] Oakland City, Rose Polytechnic, and Wabash.

The three largest member institutions—Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame—were key to its creation, even though they did not participate in IIC team sports once conference standings were kept. At the time, during the formative years of college athletics, the NCAA left questions of student-athlete eligibility to the conferences and to individual schools. Compounding the confusion, with few exceptions only the largest public universities and the most elite private schools even belonged to the NCAA. Indiana and Purdue operated under the eligibility rules of the Big Ten, then known as the Western Conference, and independent Notre Dame, for the sake of scheduling games with Big Ten teams, followed their rules too. But all three rounded out their schedules with games against smaller Indiana colleges, none of which was subject to the same eligibility standards, in particular the Western Conference's ban on freshmen participating in varsity contests. This issue had flared up before, in 1907, precipitating the demise of the IIAA, and came to a head again at the 1921 annual meeting of the Big Ten in Chicago, when "it was observed that schools not belonging to any recognized body were not welcome on Big Ten schedules."[3] The problem could be solved only by creating a "recognized body" that would maintain standards for the smaller Indiana colleges, thus making them acceptable as non-conference opponents for Indiana and Purdue, as well as for Notre Dame. The smaller colleges, many of which were eager to keep their prestigious and/or lucrative games with the "big three" and other Big Ten schools, became motivated partners in this process.

The conference was created largely through the work of Purdue athletic director Nelson A. Kellogg, who led several organizing meetings during the first half of 1922. He hosted and presided over a session in May 1922 at which Notre Dame's Knute Rockne served as secretary. At another meeting the following month, again at Purdue, Kellogg and Rockne joined William M. Blanchard of DePauw and representatives from Butler and Wabash in drafting a constitution and eligibility standards.[4] At the official founding meeting that December, Kellogg was confirmed as president of the league, Blanchard was elected vice-president, and Birch Bayh of Indiana State was elected secretary-treasurer. While at the meeting, the coaches of member institutions finalized their schedules for the 1922–23 season in basketball and the 1923 seasons in baseball, track, and football. The IIC continued to hold annual meetings at the same location in Indianapolis every December, at which officers would be chosen and schedules finalized (with schedules eventually done a year in advance). In later years, the IIC added an annual spring meeting, typically held at the end of basketball season in March.

History

In 1923, the conference expanded from 17 members to 20 by adding Huntington in the spring, then Indiana Central (today the University of Indianapolis) and Central Normal (eventually renamed Canterbury College) at the end of the year.[5] Thereafter, the IIC usually had at least 20 active members except during the years of World War II. Valparaiso joined in 1927 and Taylor in 1933.[6][7] Anderson, Concordia, and St. Joseph's all joined in 1935.[8] Indiana Dental College (in 1925) and NCAGU (in 1941) left the league when they were absorbed by Indiana University. The IIC also admitted three junior colleges, none of which remained in the conference for long. Vincennes was a member from 1924 until temporarily dropping athletics in 1932.[9] Gary Junior College (today Indiana University Northwest) joined upon its creation in 1932 but left two years later.[10] Kokomo Junior College (today Indiana University Kokomo), also founded in 1932, joined in 1938[11] but dropped out in 1940. Tri-State (today Trine University) likewise joined in 1938 and dropped out in 1940, but was readmitted in 1946.[12][13] Indiana Tech was the only other postwar addition, in 1947.[14]

In its first year of operation (1922–23) the IIC crowned champions in basketball, baseball, and track. Football, cross country, and tennis were added in 1923–24, and the first conference golf championship was held at the end of the 1924–25 school year. The IIC eventually added swimming as an 8th sport, but conference swim meets were not always held on an annual basis (for example, in 1940 at Indiana and in 1942 at Purdue, but no meet in 1941).[15]

Because Notre Dame (unlike Indiana and Purdue) had no conference affiliation other than the IIC, press reports called the November 1923 football game between the Fighting Irish (whose lone in-state win was against Purdue) and Butler (4–0 in the IIC) "a battle for the championship of the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference."[16] Notre Dame won it, and finished the season with a 9–1 record. The following year, Rockne's team, led by the Four Horsemen, shut out their only IIC opponent (Wabash) en route to an undefeated national championship season, and were once again hailed as "the Indiana conference champion."[17] Notre Dame never scheduled an IIC football opponent again, making its further eligibility for conference championships a moot point. Without the Fighting Irish, the 1925 season featured four undefeated teams and no clear champion, while also foreshadowing the IIC's fundamental incoherence as a conference: Central Normal joined Evansville in going unbeaten in IIC play, each without playing another winning team, while Butler and Wabash were also undefeated (tying each other) with their only non-conference losses coming against Big Ten squads. Butler ultimately dominated the league in football, especially in the years before World War II, winning seven straight titles from 1934 through 1940. Tony Hinkle, better known as a basketball coach, doubled as the Bulldogs' football coach during those years. Nine Butler players from the IIC era went on to play at least one season in the NFL.[18]

In basketball, IIC teams made an immediate splash on the national scene. In 1922–23, Franklin's Wonder Five, coached by the legendary Ernest "Griz" Wagner, lost only to Indiana and were recognized as national champions. The following year they lost only to Butler, also considered a national power. At a time when there were no postseason collegiate tournaments, some college teams competed in the national AAU tournament, which the Bulldogs won at the end of the 1923–24 season, defeating the Kansas City Athletic Club in the final.[19] The last great IIC team of the pre-tournament era, Tony Hinkle's 1928-29 Butler squad, went 17-2 and was awarded the John J. McDevitt Trophy, emblematic of the national championship.[20] After the creation of the National Association for Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB), an organization that eventually evolved into the NAIA, IIC members appeared regularly in the annual NAIB national tournaments. By 1950, when Indiana State won the NAIB title, nine IIC teams had made a total of 17 appearances in the tournament over 13 seasons. The Sycamores led the way with six appearances, guided by future UCLA head coach John Wooden (until 1948), then John Longfellow. Their stars included Duane Klueh, who went on to play in the NBA after its founding in 1949. No IIC team ever competed in the NCAA tournament or the NIT. (The NCAA College Division tournament was not held until 1957).

While they did not compete for IIC championships in team sports, Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame contested (and often hosted) the annual IIC tournaments in tennis and golf, as well as the IIC meets in cross country and (eventually) swimming. The conference always held two track meets, "Big State" (hosted by one of the "big three," but open to all IIC members) and "Little State" (hosted at one of the smaller colleges, and open to all members except the "big three"). They were held annually on consecutive weekends in May, starting in 1923 and continuing until 1950, when "Big State" was cancelled in favor of a three-way meet between Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame. While Butler and DePauw dominated "Little State," Notre Dame and Indiana dominated "Big State." One of the "big three" always won "Big State," and after the 1920s it was unusual for the three major universities not to take the top three places at the meet.[21] The IIC eventually applied the same model to cross country, tennis, and golf, crowning separate "big" and "little" champions in those sports as well.

At the insistence of the "big three," the eligibility standards of the IIC mirrored those of the Big Ten, including the same ban on freshman participation in varsity sports that had divided its predecessor, the IIAA, years earlier. Technically a "one year rule" (requiring a student to be in residence for a year in order to qualify for varsity competition), it also required all transfer students to sit out a year before playing for their new institution. It became clear right away that the rule posed a serious burden to the conference's smaller members and an obstacle to other small colleges joining the league. At the second annual meeting of the IIC, in December 1923, a proposal to allow members with small enrollments to petition to use freshmen in varsity contests passed by a vote of 16–1. Ten such waivers were granted for 1923–24.[22][23] The submission and approval of waiver requests became a major item of business at subsequent annual meetings. Finally, after the Great Depression caused a severe drop in enrollment at most Indiana private colleges, a 1933 amendment to the IIC constitution made the freshman exception automatic for any member with fewer than 350 male students. Meanwhile, the probationary period for transfers increased from one year to two before being reduced again to one; an exception to the policy was made for graduates of junior colleges, who were eligible to transfer and not sit out at all. The traditional limit of five years to use four years of eligibility (including the freshman year) was eliminated in 1933, to avoid penalizing students who had to drop out of school to work.[24]

Discontent and demise

In the years before World War II, the original rationale for the IIC's existence gradually became irrelevant. The conference had been created to provide eligibility standards for smaller colleges appearing on the schedules of the "big three" and other Big Ten schools, especially in football, but after IIC teams met Big Ten teams on the gridiron 49 times in the years 1923-29 (including 12 games in 1925 alone), such opportunities all but disappeared by the 1930s. Notre Dame last scheduled an IIC school in football in 1924 (Wabash). Indiana and Purdue went from playing 3 or 4 IIC football opponents per year in the 1920s to 1 or 2 per year in the 1930s. Purdue last scheduled one in 1940 (Butler), and Indiana in 1943 (Wabash). Meanwhile, in basketball, Butler, DePauw, and Wabash continued to get games with the "big three," but after the 1920s the smaller IIC schools rarely did.

As early as 1929, eight of the smallest IIC schools convened to consider forming a conference of their own.[25] Feeling that they had more in common with the selective private colleges of Ohio, in 1930 DePauw and Wabash joined the Buckeye Athletic Association, but without formally quitting the IIC, to which they returned in 1932.[26] After briefly belonging to the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) from 1932 to 1934, Butler was a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) from 1946 to 1950, both times without leaving the IIC. Such dual memberships caused their share of headaches. For example, because the MAC and the IIC had different rules regarding transfer students and freshman eligibility, during the postwar years Butler maintained different (though overlapping) rosters for its MAC and IIC games.[27][28]

Reflecting on the growing dissatisfaction within the IIC, in 1933 the Indianapolis News noted that "no one will miss this conference, of course, but some conference will have to be formed to take its place."[29] With the Great Depression followed by World War II, no one had the time or energy to devote to such a project. Finally, in the spring of 1947, eight of the smaller members formed the Hoosier College Conference (HCC). That fall, one sportswriter referred to the IIC as "a ghost ... which went through all the customary motions of dying" after the creation of the HCC.[30] But because the HCC members, like Butler in the MVC and MAC, did not explicitly quit the IIC, initially the sports pages referred to the new conference as "formed within the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference."[31][32] The IIC was also increasingly referred to as "strictly an eligibility-determining organization,"[33] a kind of state-level version of what the NCAA soon would become, in the early 1950s.

IIC standings all but disappeared from Indiana sports pages after 1946–47, but sportswriters continued to refer to in-state matchups involving IIC members as "conference" games, even if one of the teams now belonged to the HCC. Compounding the confusion, HCC schools sent teams to the IIC cross country and track meets and to the IIC golf and tennis tournaments, even though their own conference now sponsored championships in those sports. As early as the fall of 1947, one sportswriter called for the creation of another conference for the "middle class" of Indiana collegiate athletics, the schools "unable to compete with the Big Three and left out of the new Hoosier conference."[34] It finally happened in February 1950, when the presidents of Ball State, Butler, Evansville, Indiana State, St. Joseph's, and Valparaiso authorized the creation of what became the Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC), a league soon joined by DePauw. Aside from the "big three," the IIC had 22 postwar members, of which 16 became members of either the HCC or ICC in the years 1947–53. Those left out of both conferences lacked the numbers and cohesion to continue under the IIC banner or form a third successor conference.

While it is reasonably accurate to say that the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference ceased to exist in 1950 (upon the creation of the ICC, in the wake of the formation of the HCC), it faded away gradually and had no exact date of death. Annual "Indiana Intercollegiate" competitions continued in golf and tennis, while in track, the "Big State" meet resumed in 1951 and was held every year through 1975, with Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame taking turns hosting, and winning, an event that remained open to participants from the state's smaller colleges. The "Little State" meet continues to exist to the present, crowning Indiana state champions from among a hodgepodge of NCAA Division II, Division III, and NAIA participants. The similarity of names and acronyms between the post-1950 Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) and the defunct Indiana Intercollegiate Conference (IIC) also caused a degree of confusion that was reflected in many Indiana newspapers, whose sportswriters who took years to adjust to the change.

Membership timeline

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Conference champions

During the timeframe in which the IIC existed, few conferences (even at the highest level) had completely coherent approaches to scheduling. Most, however, did have guidelines, whereas the IIC had none. In each of the team sports, each member was free to put together its own schedule, for conference as well as non-conference games. The sports pages often referred to the IIC football and basketball titles listed below as "mythical championships," because they were decided by winning percentage among teams that, in some cases, had played dramatically different numbers of league contests. Especially in basketball, some of the better teams often could not agree on when, where, or whether to play. To deal with the challenge of determining a champion, in 1927 the IIC considered adding a postseason conference basketball tournament, but nothing came of it.[35] Thus, the only definitive champions were crowned in track and in the other sports with a season-ending conference meet or tournament—tennis, golf, and cross country.

Football champion(s) Basketball champion(s) Track ("Big State") Track ("Little State")
1922 (no champion) 1922-23 Franklin 1923 Notre Dame Butler
1923 Notre Dame 1923-24 Franklin 1924 Notre Dame Butler
1924 Notre Dame 1924-25 Wabash 1925 Notre Dame DePauw
1925 (four unbeaten teams) 1925-26 Butler, Manchester 1926 Notre Dame DePauw
1926 Wabash 1926-27 Butler 1927 Indiana DePauw
1927 Butler 1927-28 Butler 1928 Notre Dame DePauw
1928 DePauw, Butler 1928-29 Butler 1929 Indiana DePauw
1929 Butler 1929-30 Central Normal 1930 Notre Dame DePauw
1930 DePauw 1930-31 Butler 1931 Notre Dame Butler
1931 Valparaiso, DePauw 1931-32 1932 Indiana DePauw
1932 Valparaiso, Manchester 1932-33 Earlham 1933 Indiana DePauw
1933 DePauw 1933-34 Indiana Central 1934 Indiana Butler
1934 Butler 1934-35 Wabash 1935 Notre Dame Butler
1935 Butler 1935-36 Central Normal 1936 Notre Dame DePauw
1936 Butler 1936-37 Central Normal 1937 Indiana Butler
1937 Butler 1937-38 Valparaiso 1938 Notre Dame Butler
1938 Butler 1938-39 Butler 1939 Indiana Butler
1939 Butler 1939-40 Butler 1940 Notre Dame Butler
1940 Butler, Manchester 1940-41 Indiana Central, Evansville, Butler 1941 Notre Dame Butler
1941 St. Joseph's, Rose Poly 1941-42 Indiana Central, Evansville 1942 Notre Dame Butler
1942 St. Joseph's, Ball State 1942-43 Wabash 1943 (no meet) (no meet)
1943 (no champion) 1943-44 DePauw 1944 (no meet) (no meet)
1944 (no champion) 1944-45 DePauw 1945 Notre Dame DePauw
1945 Valparaiso 1945-46 DePauw 1946 Indiana, Purdue Butler
1946 Butler 1946-47 DePauw 1947 Indiana Butler
1947 Butler 1947-48 Indiana State 1948 Notre Dame Butler
1948 Ball State 1948-49 Indiana State 1949 Notre Dame Ball State
1949 Ball State 1949-50 Indiana State 1950 Indiana+ Ball State

+ a tri-meet of Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame was held instead of the 1950 "Big State"

Football standings

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