Four Football Divisions Classified
FOURFOOTBALL DIVISIONS CLASS IFIED Football-playing member in- consideration at the Association’s “It was a difficult two days, but and the Committee, in imple- Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, stitutions of the NCAA have 71st annual meeting, January ll- I compliment the Committee for menting the four-division con- Richmond, Rutgers, San Diego been assigned to four divisions 13, 1977, in Miami, Florida. its conscientious effort,” said cept include 97 in Division I, 91 State, South Carolina, Southern Louis A. Myers, Committee chair- in Division IA, 82 in Division II Mississippi, Syracuse, Te m p 1 e , by the Association’s recently ap- The new membership structure man and faculty representative and 196 in Division III.” Tulane, Utah State, Villanova, pointed Classification Committee. would be for competitive and for athletics at the University of Virginia Tech, and West Virginia. The 70th annual NCAA Con- limited legislative purposes in the Division I Arizona. vention authorized formation of sport of football only. To become Included in Division I are all Division IA effective, it would have to be ap- “Currently, there are 138 mem- the Committee and charged it to 60 members of the Atlantic Coast, The 39 current Division I in- proved by the 1977 NCAA Con- bers in Division I, 131 in Divi- present a report on divisional re- Big Eight, Big Ten, Pacific-8 stitutions placed in proposed IA alignment for the membership’s vention. sion II and 197 in Division III, Southeastern, Southwest and include all members of the Ivy Western Athletic conferences. Group and the Southland Confer- Bowling Green, Kent State, ence; the remaining members of Miami, Ohio University, Toledo the Mid-American, Missouri Val- and Western Michigan from the ley, Pacific Coast and Southern Mid-American Conference; Tulsa conferences; Idaho of Big Sky and Wichita State from the Mis- and independents Colgate, Ha- 1976 Football souri Valley Conference; East waii, Holy Cross, Illinois State, Carolina and William and Mary Northeast Louisiana and North- from the Southern Conference, western Louisiana.
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