There is a clear preference for male athletes and male sports throughout Centre's history.  The football team in particular.  Even before the merge, the football team received large amounts of funding and support and its scheduling and events were very important to the college.  They were even able to visit Washington D.C. in 1925, where they were able to visit the White House and the president of the time: Calvin Coolidge.  Information from the same time shows female teams as very small, and photos are almost always posed and taken in the on-campus gym.  Male athletes, if successful, gained a lot of on-campus recognition, their name preserved through the ages due to the countless photos taken of them as they won many popular vote events such as Valentine's Day king, places Mayday festival courts, and more.  The strongest example of this is the obsessive culture around the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game, known today as 'C6H0.'  Centre's quarterback from that game was revered on campus, winning any popular vote available and is better remembered than any other student from that time.   

College handbooks from the 40s and 50s also stress the male athletic program.  In an edition of the Student Handbook where the women's rules and men's rules were published in one small booklet, separated into two different sections, this difference becomes more apparent.  The men's section on athletics starts with the following quote:

"Centre’s athletic policy recognizes the need for a program of physical education and recreation through sports that is designed for the benefit and enjoyment of all Centre men rather than for a limited few.”  

The quote is a nice sentiment for athletics, despite it only including men, no such quote existing for the Women's Department and the quote ends up contradicting itself, somewhat, due to the gap of interest and funding for a variety of sports.  The section dives off into typical rules, listing guidelines for eligibility, athletic officials, and more.  However, the handbook then lists the scores of recent football games, presumably to keep new students up to date with the team's performance.  The upcoming schedule is also listed out, showing dates, times, and location for the football team.  This same schedule is also included for the male basketball team.  Although other male sports are present, none of them receive this same preference, showing a disparity of funding and interest even within the male-only realm.  

This disparity becomes stronger when moving to the women's section of the handbook.  Women's athletics did not run on a conventional system, instead using their point system, where any athlete who participated enough, attending practices and games, or won lots of games, would be considered a varsity player.  However, women's teams had trouble being taken seriously, and funding was a significant factor in what was available and active on campus.  Occasionally, athletes would have to pick between sports as they were told that there was no funding available to have two teams; for instance, if students wanted to start a volleyball program they would have to shut down another active sport and transfer the funding.  The problem with this was being able to see the steady increase of funding for male teams -- especially the football team.