page_title: Albert Pattengill
section_title: Board of Athletic Control and the Western Conference
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Pattengill / University of Michigan athletics / Board of Athletic Control and the Western Conference
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of University of Michigan Athletic Board of Control, 1905-06
context_page_description: Albert Henderson Pattengill was an American professor of Greek. For 40 years, Pattengill was also a leader in athletics at the University of Michigan. He played on Michigan's 1867 baseball team and was part of a three-person committee that selected "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors. He was also one of the leaders behind the formation and early development of the Big Ten Conference.
context_section_description: With the growing popularity of intercollegiate athletics in the early 1890s, the University of Michigan faculty in 1894 established a faculty Board in Control of Athletics. Pattengill was a member of the Athletic Board from the time of its formation, serving as its chairman from 1898 until the time of his death.  He was also one of the leaders in the formation in 1896 of the Western Inter-Collegiate Athletic Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference).  The conference was composed of representatives from the athletic boards of seven leading Mid-Western universities, established with the goal of regulating and standardizing the conditions of inter-collegiate athletics and "to maintain a high ideal of amateurism in college sports."  Professor Pattengill worked with Michigan's President James B. Angell on the formation of the conference and served as Michigan's faculty representative to the conference.  He also served as Chairman of the Western Conference for a number of years.
caption: Michigan's 1905-06 Athletic Board of Control (Chairman Pattengill at center)
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