South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association

South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association
AssociationNCAA
Founded1912
Ceased1921
RegionAtlantic Coast
Tidewater
Conference presidents
J. T. England 1912
J. W. H. Pollard 1915–1919

The South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) was an intercollegiate athletic conference with its main focus of promoting track and arranging track meets. Its member schools were located in the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, as well as the District of Columbia.

The conference's membership was centered in the South Atlantic region of the United States, which remains in the Southern United States and on the coast of the Atlantic, but is above and contrasted with the Deep South (which had the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association). It is sometimes known as the Tidewater region. Several of its members are today in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The SAIAA was first formed in 1912[1] and remained active until 1921. The conference disbanded in 1921, and six of its schools became founding members of the Southern Conference along with eight other schools from the southeast United States. Those six SAIAA schools were: North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Maryland and Washington and Lee.[2]

Membership

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The following universities were members of the SAIAA at some point during its existence. Where known, the school's name is followed by the period of its membership in the conference. Italicized years indicate a confirmed year of membership, but may not be exhaustive. Track meets were held in 1911, and 1912 was the first season of play for all sports.[3][4][5][6]


Football champions

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There is no evidence in exhaustive searches of newspaper archives that the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association ever sanctioned college football. The list of champions has been derived from compiling football records of schools that belonged to the association that sponsored track and field events. The terminology "South Atlantic" was used generically by various publications to describe teams in the Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and North Carolina area.

Year Champion[14][better source needed]
1912 Georgetown
1913 North Carolina A&M
1914 Washington and Lee & Virginia[15]
1915 Georgetown, Virginia, & Washington and Lee
1916 VPI
1917 Georgetown
1918 VPI
1919 Georgetown
1920 VMI
1921 Washington and Lee

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Athletes' Meeting - South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association Formed [D.C.] Evening Star, 1912-02-11 Part 5 pg 3
  2. ^ Roger Saylor, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (PDF), College Football Historical Society, The LA84 Foundation, retrieved March 14, 2009.
  3. ^ Association, National Collegiate Athletic (1912). Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention ... p. 14.
  4. ^ "England Selects Southern Outfit". The Charlotte News. May 27, 1912. p. 6. Retrieved December 8, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "First Field Meet". Asheville Citizen-Times. May 5, 1912. p. 9. Retrieved December 8, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ "South Atlantic Colleges to Organize". The Daily Tar Heel. February 20, 1912. p. 1. Retrieved December 8, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1921, p. 114
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1916, p. 114
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h National Collegiate Athletic Association (1922). Official Collegiate Track and Field Guide. p. 109.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g Kemp Plummer Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Page 20.
  11. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2016-12-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ American Physical Education Review. Committee on Publication and Information of the Council of the A.A.A.P.E. 1913-01-01.
  13. ^ COLLEGE TRACK RECORDS.; Four New South Atlantic Figures Made at Baltimore Meet, The New York Times, May 4, 1913.
  14. ^ Conference Champions of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine,College Football Data Warehouse
  15. ^ Brian Leung; Terry Holland (15 September 2016). 100 Things Virginia Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die. Triumph Books. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-63319-674-2. One interesting poing about Gooch is that not only was he a football player at UVA, but he was also a star. As a senior quarterback in 1914, he was part of the team that split the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association title with Washington & Lee and was named to the All-Southern team.
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