Everything about The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association totally explained
The
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, or
SIAA was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences formed in the United States. Twenty-seven (almost a quarter) of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs can claim membership in this conference, as can at least nineteen other schools. Every member of the current
Southeastern Conference except for Arkansas, as well as eight of the twelve members of the
Atlantic Coast Conference, can claim membership. (Duke and Wake Forest didn't participate in the league; Boston College is a historically northern school; and Florida State didn't sponsor football until after the league dissolved.)
It was founded in 1895 by Dr. William Dudley, Dean of the Vanderbilt University Medical College. The original members included Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Vanderbilt. Clemson, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Tulane would join a year later.
On December 10, 1920, the SIAA at its annual meeting voted down proposed rules that an athlete must be in a college a year before playing on its teams and refused to abolish a rule permitting athletes to play Summer baseball for money. In protest, some teams voting in favor of the proposed rules immediately announced they'd seek to form a new conference. On February 25, 1921, fourteen of the thirty schools in the conference — Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Washington & Lee — left the conference to form the
Southern Conference. In 1922, six more schools — Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane and Vanderbilt — would join them, as would the (more popularly known as "Sewanee") in 1923 and
VMI in 1925. With many of its members gone, it would have a renaissance of sorts, adding almost as many members as it had lost. Due to competition from the Southeastern and Southern Conferences, it would eventually disband after the 1941 season, as many of its teams would disband during
World War II.
Membership
(Please note; this is a partial list. For sake of convenience, current school names are used.)
Original Members
The First Expansion
Clemson University 1896-1921
University of Kentucky 1896-1921
Louisiana State University 1896-1921
Mississippi State University 1896-1921
University of Tennessee 1896-1921
Tulane University 1896-1921
Other teams which left by 1921
North Carolina State University 1898-1906
University of Mississippi 1899-1921
Virginia Tech 1898, 1907-1921
University of Virginia 1907-1921
University of Florida 1912-1921
University of South Carolina 1915-1921
University of Maryland 1918-1921
Other current Division I FBS teams
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute 1925-1941 (now Louisiana Tech University)
Southwestern Louisiana Institute 1925-1941 (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
University of Louisville 1921-1941
University of Miami 1929-1941
Memphis State College 1935-1941 (now University of Memphis)
Middle Tennessee Normal School 1931-1941 (now Middle Tennessee State University)
Mississippi Southern College 1931-1941 (now The University of Southern Mississippi)
Troy State Teachers College 1938-1941 (now Troy University)
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas 1903-1908, 1912-1914 (now Texas A&M University)
Members not currently in Division I FBS
Centenary College of Louisiana 1925-1941
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chattanooga) 1914-1932
The Citadel 1908-1935
Davidson College 1898-1906
Eastern Kentucky University 1930-1941
Furman University 1900-1902, 1914-1929, 1932-1935
Northwestern State University 1928-1941
Samford University 1907-1938
Tennessee Technological University 1933-1941
Virginia Military Institute 1918-1921
Western Kentucky University 1927-1941
Other Members
Centre College
Cumberland College (the loser in the infamous 222-0 game against John Heisman's Georgia Tech team in 1916) - was a member by 1903 because it was conference co-champion that year.
Erskine College
Murray State University
Oglethorpe University
Presbyterian College
Rollins College
- was a member by 1898 because it was conference champion in 1898, 1899, 1903 and 1909.
Washington and Lee UniversityFurther Information
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