1950
The National Collegiate Athletic Association conducts it's first national championship in the sport. Yale, hosting the first finals at the Yale Bowl, defeat Texas 14-10 in the final.
1951
On September 16th, the Dumont Network broadcasts the first Pigball match televised coast-to-coast. Boston Rovers defeat home side Chicago West End 26-20.
Vincent Gelfand, PL President, dies at 58, September 27. He is succeeded as President by Richard Barnes.
1952
PL announces new scheduling procedures to be implemented this season, all centered around Richard Barnes' personal beliefs, January 7. Sunday matches, scheduled regularly since 1942, are outlawed once again; rained out Saturday matches are to be played the following Monday, rained out weekday matches were to be played the following week.. Night games are also banned; all matches are to start at 3 PM local time. In the most controversial move, live broadcasts of pigball matches, on both TV and Radio, are banned. A move to allow for delayed broadcasts on Sunday afternoons is blocked, leaving watching the matches and reading the newspaper as the only way for fans to follow pigball during the season.
1953
After attendance fell by as much as 40 percent in 1952, the PL announced on January 15 that radio broadcasts were to be reinstated, but live television broadcasts were still banned. As a compromise, games could be broadcast the following day on Sundays, and ABC, CBS, and DuMont introduce replay shows.
1954
1955
1956
Four years after they had been banned, live television broadcasts of pigball matches were revived by ABC on March 17. One match a week was carried by the network at 3 PM Eastern Time, but was blacked out in the city of the home club where the match originated from. Later in May, CBS begins their own match of the round coverage. DuMont's coverage was dropped as the network shut down in August.
1957
NBC begins carrying a match each round. Although most games still begin at 3 PM Eastern Time, NBC airs their matches at Noon due to it's commitment to baseball coverage.
1958
1959