Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference is a college athletic conference located in the northern United States, stretching from Iowa in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I-A. 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 1990, there have been eleven schools in the conference.

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."

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• 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-