The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association was founded in 1912 and is a college athletic conference mostly consisting of American historical black colleges and universities.
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) is America's oldest collegiate athletic conference - Founded in 1888 by Olivet College, Albion College, and Michigan State University. http://miaa.org/history/index.html The Big 10 IS the oldest Division 1 conference in the United States - Founded 1896 http://www.bigten.org/trads/big10-trads.html
It went professional in 1896 in Trenton, New Jersey. The first professional league was formed in 1898. Before World War I, the Amateur Athletic Union and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (forerunner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association) vied for control over the rules for the game. The first professional league, the National Basketball League, was formed in 1898 to protect players from exploitation and to promote a less rough game. This league only lasted five years.
The NCAA was founded in 1906 as a response to White House conferences called by President Theodore Roosevelt that encouraged reform. The original name was the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the NCAA was taken up in 1910.
This association, founded in 1955
1906 as the AAUS, and 1910 became the NCAA.
Surendranath Banerjee founded Indian Association in 1876
In 1940 the National Association of Investment Companies was founded
The Belgian Business Association was founded in 2002. A more grammatically correct way to ask the question would be "When was the Belgian Business Association founded?"
The Gaelic Athletic Association was founded on the 1st of November, 1884. In 2009 it is celebrated its 125th anniversary. The sports it governs all predate it by centuries.
In 1940 the National Association of Investment Companies was founded
In 1940 the National Association of Investment Companies was founded
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) was founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King.