Walter Byers

Walter Byers was named the NCAA’s first executive director in 1951...

GOING NATIONAL: Walter Byers was only 29 and I was only 23 when we became the first NCAA staff to go into a national headquarters in 1952...

Byers was long gone by the time of this investigation...

Walter Byers was a founding father of the NCAA who rarely ventured outside his office during the 36 years he served as executive director...

Walter Byers is named as the Association’s first excecutive director in 1951...