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The NCAA has had its national award program for 40 years now and the Ivy League has certainly been at its center throughout, including former Cornell All-American Brud Holland, who received the Teddy Roosevelt Award in 1972.

It took the NCAA a little while to figure out its award program. It started in 1967 with two honorees, both with ties to the Ivy League. President Dwight D. Eisenhower — a former president at Columbia University — was the first recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Award, which is the highest honor the NCAA confers on an individual. Meanwhile, the NCAA gave out its only Astronaut Salute, which went to Major Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, who had been a star pole vaulter at the U.S. Military Academy (then a member of Heps).

The first actual Ivy graduates to earn awards came the following year as former Massachusetts Governor and Senator Leverett Saltonstall was awarded the Teddy. A rower, football and ice hockey player at Harvard, Saltonstall was the captain of the first American crew to win the prestigious Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. Three Leaguers were also awarded the NCAA Business Leaders Salute, the only time that honor was ever bestowed.

In 1970, the NCAA had its only Governor Salute, honoring two former Yale athletes — Michigan's William Milliken and Illinois' Richard Ogilvie. Following that in 1972, the League had its second 'Teddy' Award winner — former Cornell football All-American Brud Holland, who later became a university president and an ambassador for the United States.

The first Ivy Silver Anniversary Award winner came in 1974, when former Columbia football player Eugene Rossides was named. Just last January, the Ivy League tied a record with three Silver awardees — Yale's Pat Melton, Dartmouth's Gail Koziara Boudreaux and Brown's Steve Jordan.

In 1978, Cornell All-American and national champion lacrosse player Dan Mackesey claimed the League's first NCAA Today's Top VIII Award, which honors eight outstanding senior student-athletes of the preceding calendar year. Yale's Amanda Walton became the first Ivy Leaguer to be named the recipient of the NCAA Inspiration Award in 2003.

In 2006, the Ivy League became the first conference to have recipients of each of the four major NCAA awards in a single season — Nick Hartigan (Brown, Top VIII); John Doar (Princeton, Inspiration); Robert Kraft (Columbia, Teddy) and Susan Wellington (Yale, Silver Anniversary).

The entire list is below:

1968
Theodore Roosevelt Award
Leverett Saltonstall — Harvard '14 — Rowing, Football & Ice Hockey

NCAA Business Leaders Salute
Hulbert S. Aldrich — Yale '30 — Football & Basketball
George Champion — Dartmouth '26 — Football
Charles C. Tillinghast — Brown '32 — Football, Basketball & Lacrosse

1970
NCAA Governor Salute
William G. Milliken — Yale '46 — Basketball
Richard B. Ogilvie — Yale '47 — Football & Wrestling

1972
Theodore Roosevelt Award
Jerome H. Holland — Cornell '39 — Football

1974
Silver Anniversary Award
Eugene T. Rossides — Columbia '49 — Football

1976
Silver Anniversary Award
Samuel H. Greenawalt — Penn '51 — Football & Squash

1977
Silver Anniversary Award
Richard W. Kazmaier — Princeton '52 — Football

1978
NCAA Today's Top VIII Award
Daniel R. Mackesey — Cornell '78 — Lacrosse & Soccer

1983
Silver Anniversary Award
Richard J. Censits — Penn '58 — Basketball

1984
Silver Anniversary Award
Stephan Friedman — Cornell ‘59 — Wrestling

1985
Silver Anniversary Award
Paul J. Choquette Jr. — Brown '60 — Football & Track

1986
Theodore Roosevelt Award
George H.W. Bush — Yale '48 — Baseball

1990
Silver Anniversary Award
Arthur J. Roberts — Columbia '65 — Football, Basketball & Baseball

1991
NCAA Today's Top VIII Award
Meredith L. Rainey — Harvard '91 — Track & Field

Silver Anniversary Award
Tone N. Grant — Yale ‘66 — Football & Lacrosse

1993
Silver Anniversary Award
Donald A. Schollander — Yale '68 — Swimming

1994
Silver Anniversary Award
Calvin Hill — Yale '69 — Football

1995
Silver Anniversary Award
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong — Yale ‘70 — Soccer, Track & Field

1996
Silver Anniversary Award
Kurt L. Schmoke — Yale ‘71 — Football & Lacrosse

1997
Silver Anniversary Award
Jack Ford — Yale ‘72 — Football

1998
Silver Anniversary Award
Lawrie Mifflin — Yale '73 — Field Hockey

1999
NCAA Today's Top VIII Award
Emily Stauffer — Harvard '99 — Soccer

2000
NCAA Today's Top VIII Award
Josh Sims — Princeton '00 — Lacrosse

Silver Anniversary Award
Lisa Rosenblum — Yale ‘75 — Tennis

2003
NCAA Inspiration Award
Amanda Walton — Yale '02 — Field Hockey & Lacrosse

2004
Silver Anniversary Award
Virginia Anne Gilder — Yale '79 — Rowing

2005
Silver Anniversary Award
Gary Lawrence — Yale '80 — Ice Hockey

2006
Theodore Roosevelt Award
Robert Kraft — Columbia '63 — Lightweight Football

NCAA Today's Top VIII Award
Nick Hartigan — Brown '06 — Football

Silver Anniversary Award
Susan Wellington — Yale '81 — Women's Swimming & Softball

NCAA Inspiration Award
John Doar — Princeton '44 — Basketball

2007
NCAA Today's Top VIII Award
Alison Crocker — Dartmouth '07 — Skiing & Rowing

Silver Anniversary Award
Gail (Koziara) Boudreaux — Dartmouth '82 — Basketball, Track & Field
Steve Jordan — Brown '82 — Football
Patricia Melton — Yale '82 — Track & Field

— Brett Hoover

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