Talk:Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association

SAIAA

Were all these schools also in the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association? Was it a division of the wider SAIAA? Cake (talk) 20:28, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

@MisterCake: There are no direct ties to the SAIAA that I have ever found. Is there any reason you suspected they were related? Cnd474747 (talk) 17:15, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

I believe it was due to the likes of 1915 Richmond Spiders football team, or VPI, and the SAIAA also lasting to 1921. Cake (talk) 19:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

I believe they were in both at once, which was not unheard of at the time despite being uncommon. For example, Duke was in both the SIAA and the NC Athletics Association in the early 1900s (roughly 1900-1901) despite not sponsoring football; as a general rule, a team in two conferences followed the stricter set of rules (if they bothered following the rules at all, as teams often didn't) and used them as a way to help guarantee games, as teams in a conference were often dissuaded or even banned from playing non-member teams. For example, the SIAA forbade member teams from playing non-member college teams for most of the 1900s (1900-1910, to be clear) , especially after circa 1905. It's especially possible with the SAIAA as they primarily sponsored track for many of their early years. Cnd474747 (talk) 12:40, 9 October 2021 (UTC)