The Sports Institute for Research/Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) model and method for research in organizational history are used to analyze the growth and development of the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) from its inception in 1906 through its breakup in 1955 and its reestablishment in 1961. Four stages of growth are identified: primitive, primary, stable, and elaborate. Both the historical and modern organizations of the CIAU are analyzed using these stages to show the development and decline of the organization. This pattern is used to substantiate the theory of cycles of conflict and patterns of organizational growth and development developed by Ralph M. Stogdill and the Ohio State Leadership Institute. (JMF)