Virginia Conference

{{Short description|Intercollegiate athletic conference (1922–1936)}} {{Infobox sports league | name = Virginia Conference | founded = 1922 | folded = 1936 | teams = 11 (total) | region = Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, D.C. }}

The ''' Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference''' (often shortened to just the '''Virginia Conference''') was an intercollegiate athletic conference primarily composed of member schools located in the state of Virginia, though the conference did briefly include schools from both North Carolina and Washington, D.C. in its membership at various points in time. The league existed from January 1922 to December 1936, though it did not start organizing athletic competitions and enforcing eligibility requirements until the beginning of the 1923 football season. Before the withdrawal of the North Carolina colleges in 1927, the conference was officially known as the '''Virginia–North Carolina Intercollegiate Athletic Conference'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wayland |first1=Francis Fry |title=Bridgewater College: The First Hundred Years, 1880-1980 |date=1993 |publisher=Bridgewater College |location=Bridgewater, VA |page=294 |url=https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/first_hundred_years/1/ |access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref>

==The Virginia–North Carolina Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1922–1927)== With intercollegiate athletics growing increasingly disparate in competitive level in the early 1920s (and several of the prominent colleges from the region having formed the Southern Conference in February 1921), a number of the smaller colleges from North Carolina and Virginia set out to create their own intercollegiate conference. Led by a number of the core members of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (which dissolved in October 1921), conversations began first in January 1922 among twelve colleges from the two states, with Hampden–Sydney College, Lynchburg College, Randolph–Macon College, University of Richmond, and College of William & Mary from Virginia, and Davidson College, Elon College, Guilford College, and Wake Forest College from North Carolina. Trinity College (now known as Duke University) and Emory and Henry College were absent from the meeting, though both schools had been invited. In the meeting, the schools resolved to organize a conference by June 1, 1922 which followed "Harvard" eligibility rules, barred so-called "tramp" athletes (who moved on a transitory basis from one school to another based on the whims of the athletic prospects), and professionalism issues.<ref>{{cite news |title=VA.-N. Carolina Colleges Form |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107702457/the-charlotte-news/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=The Charlotte News |date=11 January 1922}}</ref>

For reasons that remain unclear, the conference delayed its official organization until January 1, 1923, at which time it planned to begin intercollegiate play. The conference initially organized in December 1922 with just eight members, including Elon, Hampden–Sydney, Lynchburg, Randolph–Macon, and Richmond from the original meeting, as well as Bridgewater College, Roanoke College, and Lenoir–Rhyne College; William & Mary joined the following January. After the first meeting, Frederic W. Boatwright was elected president of the association. Invitations were also extended to Emory & Henry, Davidson, Wake Forest, Trinity, and Guilford; all but Emory & Henry declined to join.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Collegiate Body Effective January 1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107702466/evening-star/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Washington (DC) Evening Star |date=20 December 1922}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Indians Come In New Athletic Body |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107703512/the-times-dispatch/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=7 January 1923}}</ref> By April 1923, it was reported that the remaining North Carolina colleges were unlikely to join, as there was a separate movement of their own to organize; Such an effort was spearheaded by Robert Lee Flowers of Trinity, but appears to have not come to fruition.<ref>{{cite news |title=Urges Association College Athletics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107704630/the-daily-advance/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Elizabeth City Daily Advance |date=29 March 1923}}</ref> Emory & Henry was also participating in meetings and joined prior to the start of any regular athletic activity, though no formal announcement of their decision to join has been found.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eligibility Rules Be Effective October 1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107704509/daily-press/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Newport News Daily Press |date=28 April 1923}}</ref>

Like many of the smaller athletic associations, the V-NCIAC was quickly embroiled in controversy. Following the 1923 football season, Lynchburg left the conference over an eligibility dispute, but was reinstated less than a week later after the situation was explained and remediation offered.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hornets Told Witt Is Still Ineligible |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107705533/the-times-dispatch/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=15 December 1923}}</ref> The following year, both William & Mary and Richmond began posturing for a future move to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), primarily citing dissatisfaction with their own league's continued reluctance to implement a one-year rule and prohibit the playing of freshmen in varsity athletics.<ref>{{cite news |title=Indians-Spiders May Never Become Parts Conference |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107706025/daily-press/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Newport News Daily Press |date=8 January 1925}}</ref>

By 1927, the failure to create a one-year rule had still not been resolved; William & Mary took up the cause, threatening to leave and join a conference "of consequence".<ref>{{cite news |title=William And Mary Would Join Or Form Athletic Group "Of Consequence" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107706140/daily-press/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Newport News Daily Press |date=10 February 1927}}</ref> Finally, the conference bowed to the desires of the larger schools, banning freshmen from intercollegiate athletics by the start of the 1928 football season.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sum For Milhiser "Gym" Equipment Is Now Available |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107706470/the-richmond-news-leader/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Richmond News Leader |date=3 September 1928}}</ref> The decision prompted Elon and Lenoir to leave the conference following the 1927 football season, with Lenoir leaving immediately and Elon waiting to depart until the close of the 1927–28 basketball season. With the only two North Carolina members having departed, the conference began to be known as the Virginia Conference, though the dual-state name remained in use informally into 1928.<ref>{{cite news |title=Emory And Henry Takes Conference Crown First Year |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107706714/daily-press/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Newport News Daily Press |date=1 November 1928}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Virginia Leads In State Baseball Championship Race; Indians Are Second |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107808978/daily-press/ |access-date=18 August 2022 |work=Newport News Daily Press |date=4 May 1928}}</ref>

==The Virginia Conference (1927–1936)== Though there were discussions in 1927 for member institutions to leave the conference for either the SIAA or a new organization after meetings in Charlotte involving several schools from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, the conference remained intact aside from the departure of the North Carolina schools; in fact, the Virginia Conference even made a push for the interested parties to join their own conference in a bid for expansion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Projected Conference Is Still In A State Of Uncertainty, Says Rowe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107708193/daily-press/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Newport News Daily Press |date=19 January 1927}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Carolina Schools Might Utilize Existing Athletic Body, Dobson Says |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107708115/the-times-dispatch/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=9 January 1927}}</ref> Aside from Lynchburg College electing to drop intercollegiate football in the summer of 1932, the Virginia Conference went through a period of relative stability following the departure of the Carolina schools.<ref>{{cite news |title=Intramural Sports Prove Successful |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107709015/the-times-dispatch/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=1 January 1933}}</ref>

Following the 1932 football season, the teams held their annual conference in late November, and voted in several changes. First, the conference voted to re-allow the invitation of members outside of Virginia, namely St. John's (MD) and American University, both from the neighboring Baltimore area. While American accepted the invitation and played sports in the Virginia Conference for the winter of 1932 and early spring of 1933, St. John's did not accept the invitation. The reason for their indecision was because of a second major change which transpired during the annual conference: the re-implementation of the controversial freshman rule, which had been suspended in the interim. This was especially problematic considering the fact that both St. John's and American played freshmen on their athletic teams at the time of their acceptance to the conference. Sports pundits widely decried the move as the conference sounding its own death knell.<ref>{{cite news |title=Virginia Conference Votes To Reinstate Freshman Rule; American U., St. John's To Enter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107777664/the-daily-news-leader/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=Staunton Daily News Leader |date=26 November 1933}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lidman |first1=David |title=Frosh Rule, Enforced Starting 1933, Threatens Va. Conference Split |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107778037/frosh-rule-enforced-starting-1933/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=26 November 1933}}</ref>

Adding to the instability, a disagreement between The College of William & Mary and Emory and Henry College over football player eligibility prompted the two to cut relations in the sport and exacerbated what conference officials deemed a "rather serious" situation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eligibility Dispute Threatens Relations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82999576/the-times-dispatch/ |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |location=Richmond, Virginia |date=November 16, 1935 |page=10 |access-date=August 7, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> At the same time, both William & Mary and the University of Richmond were pursuing membership in the Southern Conference.<ref name=fatal>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ufJNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oYoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4778,5105801&dq=virginia-conference+randolph+-church&hl=en Split Seen Fatal in Va. Conference], ''The Free Lance-Star'', December 7, 1935.</ref>

As predicted, several of the smaller schools left the Virginia Conference to form the Chesapeake Conference following the 1932-33 basketball season, leaving just four members remaining: Emory & Henry, William & Mary, Roanoke, and Richmond. While Richmond and William & Mary had hopes of joining the Southern Conference, they did not join until before the 1936 football season because of the SIAA's decision to temporarily hold off on expansion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Three State Colleges in New Conference; Virginia Loop |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107708852/three-state-colleges-in-new-conference/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=1 February 1933}}</ref> Both William & Mary and Richmond played as dual members of the Southern and Virginia Conferences for the 1936 season, but the conference was dissolved the following December after Emory & Henry announced their intentions to withdraw, with aspirations of joining the SIAA, the previous June.<ref>{{cite news |title=Emory Will Quit State Conference |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107787167/the-bristol-news-bulletin/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=Bristol News Bulletin |date=12 June 1936}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Old Virginia Athletic Body 'Goes To Wall' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107786808/the-times-dispatch/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=3 December 1936}}</ref>

==Member schools== The following colleges held membership in the Virginia Conference:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=z3pYAAAAYAAJ&q=football+%22virginia+conference+%22+-west-virginia-conference ''The Blue book of college athletics''], p. 25, F. Turbyville, 1936.</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" |- !Institution !Location !Founded !Nickname !Joined !Left !Current<br>conference |- !{{sort|American|American University}} |Washington, D.C. |1893 |Eagles |1932{{efn|name=fn1|participated in basketball season only before departing for Chesapeake Conference}} |1933 |Patriot |- !{{sort|Bridgewater|Bridgewater College}}<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n6IwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s4oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6809,5518457&dq=virginia-conference+roanoke+-church&hl=en On Va. Gridirons], ''The Free Lance-Star'', October 5, 1929.</ref><ref name=hopkins>[https://archive.today/20130131215625/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1794310512.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+29,+1933&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=Hopkins+And+St.+John's+To+Discuss+Conference&pqatl=google Hopkins And St. John's To Discuss Conference], ''The Baltimore Sun'', January 29, 1933.</ref> |Bridgewater, Virginia |1880 |Eagles |1923 |1933 |ODAC |- !{{sort|Elon|Elon College}} |Elon, North Carolina |1889 |Phoenix |1923 |1928 |CAA |- !{{sort|Emory and Henry|Emory and Henry College}}<ref name=champs>[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/conference_champs/champions.php?conid=200 Virginia Conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211141422/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/conference_champs/champions.php?conid=200 |date=December 11, 2011 }}, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 7, 2011.</ref><ref name=fatal/><ref name="archive.org">{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/kaleidoscope1929hamp#page/102/mode/1up/|title=Kaleidoscope|year=1929|publisher=Hampden-Sydney College}}</ref> |Emory, Virginia |1836 |Wasps |1923 |1936 |ODAC |- !{{sort|Hampden–Sydney|Hampden–Sydney College}}<ref name=upsets>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5MNGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mDMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1649,3971815&dq=virginia-conference+-west-virginia-conference&hl=en Several Upsets Seen On Gridiron's Front]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}, ''The Palm Beach Post'', September 24, 1933.</ref><ref name=confgames/> |Hampden Sydney, Virginia |1775 |Tigers |1923 |1933 |ODAC |- !{{sort|Lenoir|Lenoir–Rhyne College}} |Hickory, North Carolina |1891 |Bears |1923 |1927 |SAC |- !{{sort|Lynchburg|Lynchburg College}}<ref name=hopkins/><ref name=confgames>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=guVNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gYoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4015,5057092&dq=virginia-conference+richmond+-church&hl=en Six Conference Games], ''The Free Lance-Star'', December 10, 1929.</ref> |Lynchburg, Virginia |1903 |Fighting Hornets |1923{{efn|name=fn2|except for a brief departure in December 1923}} |1933 |ODAC |- !{{sort|Randolph–Macon|Randolph–Macon College}}<ref name=upsets/><ref name="archive.org"/><ref name=confgames/> |Ashland, Virginia |1830 |Yellow Jackets |1923 |1933 |ODAC |- !{{sort|Richmond|University of Richmond}}<ref name=confgames/><ref name="Richmond Historical Data">[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/atlantic10/richmond/index.php Richmond Historical Data] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515074218/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/atlantic10/richmond/index.php |date=May 15, 2013 }}, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 7, 2011.</ref> |Richmond, Virginia |1830 |Spiders |1923 |1936 |A–10 (all sports)<br>CAA (football) |- !{{sort|Roanoke|Roanoke College}}<ref name=confgames/><ref name=aggies>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zzYjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wGoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1309,6583015&dq=virginia-conference+-west-virginia-conference&hl=en Arnold College, Bates Opponent, Ties Conn. Aggies], ''The Lewiston Daily Sun'', September 21, 1931.</ref> |Salem, Virginia |1842 |Maroons |1923 |1936 |ODAC |- !{{sort|William & Mary|College of William & Mary}}<ref name="Richmond Historical Data"/><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r6IwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s4oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6504,7087173&dq=virginia-conference+richmond+-church&hl=en Only One Defeat], ''The Free Lance-Star'', November 4, 1929.</ref> |Williamsburg, Virginia |1693 |Indians |1923 |1936 |CAA |}

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==Champions== ===Football=== {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} * 1927 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Few State Elevens Break Even In '27 Football Season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82967816/daily-press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Newport News, Virginia |date=November 15, 1927 |page=5 |access-date=August 7, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1928 – Emory and Henry * 1929 – William & Mary {{col-break}} * 1930 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Old Dominion Grid Season Ends With Indians' Victory |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82953891/daily-press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Newport News, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=December 7, 1930 |page=5 |access-date=August 6, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1931 – {{cfb link|year=1931|team=Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets|title=Randolph–Macon}}<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Generals State Champions; Randolph Macon Team Wins Virginia Conference |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82952216/the-bee/ |newspaper=The Bee |location=Danville, Virginia |date=November 27, 1931 |page=11 |access-date=August 6, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1932 – Richmond<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=State Fall Sports Come To An End |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82959970/the-news-leader/ |newspaper=The News Leader |location=Staunton, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=November 28, 1932 |page=6 |access-date=August 7, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> {{col-break}} * 1933 – {{cfb link|year=1933|team=Emory and Henry Wasps|title=Emory and Henry}}, Richmond, and William & Mary * 1934 – Richmond and William & Mary * 1935 – William & Mary {{col-end}}

===Basketball=== {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} * 1928 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Silverman Leader In Point Scoring |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107941564/the-daily-news-leader/ |newspaper=The Evening Leader |location=Staunton, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=March 1, 1928 |page=3 |access-date=August 20, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1929 – {{cbb link|year=1928|team=Richmond Spiders|title=Richmond}}<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Randolph-Macon Center Top State Scorers in Final Court Standings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107941371/daily-press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Newport News, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=March 10, 1929 |page=7 |access-date=August 20, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1930 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Taps Sound Final Note Over College Basketball In Old Dominion For 1930 Season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107941253/the-times-dispatch/ |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |location=Richmond, Virginia |date=March 4, 1930 |page=15 |access-date=August 20, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> {{col-break}} * 1931 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=William And Mary Is State Champion For 2nd Successive Year |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107941044/daily-press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Newport News, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=February 27, 1931 |page=9 |access-date=August 19, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Jacket Center Leads State Scorers; W. & L. Va. Champions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107941164/the-daily-news-leader/ |newspaper=The Evening Leader |location=Staunton, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=March 2, 1931 |page=8 |access-date=August 20, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1932 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |last=Ferris |first=Paul W. |title=Reverses To Virginia And Richmond Feature Final Week Of Season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107940742/the-times-dispatch/ |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |location=Richmond, Virginia |date=February 29, 1932 |page=11 |access-date=August 19, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> * 1933 – William & Mary<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Va. Conference Title to W. & M. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107744107/the-times-dispatch/ |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |location=Richmond, Virginia |date=February 27, 1933 |page=8 |access-date=August 16, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> {{col-break}} * 1934 – {{cbb link|year=1933|team=Emory & Henry Wasps|title=Emory & Henry}}<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Emory And Henry Claims 2 Titles |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107940885/daily-press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Newport News, Virginia |agency=Associated Press |date=February 26, 1934 |page=5 |access-date=August 19, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> {{col-end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Virginia Conference Category:1923 establishments in Virginia Category:1936 disestablishments in Virginia