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 1912Athletes' Meeting - South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association Formed [D.C.] Evening Star, 1912-02-11 Part 5 pg 3 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.Roger Saylor, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (PDF), College Football Historical Society, The LA84 Foundation, retrieved March 14, 2009.
Membership
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. Catholic 1916–1921 Davidson 1916–1921Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1921, p. 114 George Washington 1916–1921 Georgetown 1911–1921 Johns Hopkins 1911–1921Kemp Plummer Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Page 20. Maryland 1916–1921 North Carolina 1911–1921 North Carolina State 1911–1921 Richmond 1911–1921 St. John's (MD) 1921 Trinity College 1916–1921 Virginia 1911–1921 Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1911–1921 Virginia Military Institute 1916–1921Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1916, p. 114 Washington and Lee 1911–1921COLLEGE TRACK RECORDS.; Four New South Atlantic Figures Made at Baltimore Meet, The New York Times, May 4, 1913. William & Mary 1916–1921
+ Conference presidents Name YearsJ. T. England1912J. W. H. Pollard1915–1919
Football champions
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 ChampionConference Champions of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association ,College Football Data Warehouse 1912 Georgetown 1913 North Carolina A&M 1914 Washington and Lee & Virginia 1915 Georgetown, Virginia, & Washington and Lee 1916 VPI 1917 Georgetown 1918 VPI 1919 Georgetown 1920 VMI 1921 Washington and Lee
See also College Football All-Southern Team
References
External links South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association Conference Championships , College Football Data Warehouse.