Growth of Intramurals
Potter was officially hired to become the intramurals director in 1967. According to Potter, “when I took over the program it did not have a huge presence on campus and I wanted to expand it” (Personal Interview, 2018). Around this time, college campuses across the nation were experiencing a shift in intramural sport. According to sport scholar Paul Milton, “existing governing bodies for men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletics programs met in Washington, D.C. and recommended that the intramural programs no longer report administratively to an academic physical education or recreation department, or intercollegiate athletics” (Milton, 2008).