Talk:South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Source for 1907

I've seen it quoted elsewhere that it starts in 1907, including Clemson who I doubt was ever there. Is there a source for this? I cannot find the SAIAA existing before 1912. Cake (talk) 20:58, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

George Washington Colonials. DBFB starts in 1907. some book. 2016 VA Tech media guide pg77, which I think is questionable per Talk:List of independent south atlantic football champions. And we have List of South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings from 1907 to 1921 years (circular argument). I think 1907 onward, based on the totality including your creation of Template:1907 SAIAA football standings. More discovery is always good. UW Dawgs (talk) 05:33, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

I asked CFBDW if he had a source, but he never gave me one. Hope the book is not using wikipedia. Cake (talk) 05:43, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

@Jweiss11: Any thoughts? UWDawgs finally has me addressing this. I've convinced myself the conference was formed in late 1911, and there were independent champions of the "south atlantic states" from 1907 to 1910. Cake (talk) 03:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Interesting. Cake (talk) 05:12, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

conference date range

The Athletic Experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Past, Present, and Persistence pg 25 gives The first HBCU conferences and associations began in 1910 and span through the 1940s, such as the Georgia-Carolina Athletic Association (GCAA, 1910; later named the Southeastern Athletic Association/Conference [SEAC] and then the South-Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association [1929-1942])..... So the conference might be longer-lived than currently shown in the infobox. UW Dawgs (talk) 04:28, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Interesting, and I certainly consider it may have last longer than 1921, like the SIAA did, but I doubt it was ever a black conference, or would have started in 1929. That's probably just another conference with the same name. That tends to happen. There are three distinct Dixie Conferences, for instance. Cake (talk) 04:43, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

The College Football Data Warehouse, lists conference champions from 1907 - 1921. Deanrah (talk) 19:05, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

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