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 .
7-971: 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
14-759: Is also a recognized geographical division used by the United States Geological Survey . All entities within the region apart from the District of Columbia and West Virginia border the North Atlantic Ocean. Together with the East South Central States ( Alabama , Kentucky , Mississippi and Tennessee ) and the West South Central states ( Arkansas , Louisiana , Oklahoma and Texas ),
21-907: The South (states/areas that were geographically part of the Thirteen Colonies ) with the addition of Florida. The name of the census division does not refer to the South Atlantic Ocean , but rather to its location along the Atlantic Coast of the United States . Farther north are the Census-defined Middle Atlantic and New England (or North Atlantic) states. This division includes eight states and one district; Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Maryland , North Carolina , South Carolina , Virginia , West Virginia and Washington . This division
28-741: 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. 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
35-673: The South Atlantic states constitute the United States Census Bureau 's broader Census Bureau Region of the South (the other three regions being the Northeast , Midwest and West , all of which have two divisions). As of 2010, the South Atlantic states had a combined population of 61,774,970. The South Atlantic states region covers 292,589 square miles (757,800 km ). With the exception of West Virginia,
42-617: 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. --> South Atlantic states The South Atlantic United States form one of the nine Census Bureau Divisions within the United States that are recognized by the United States Census Bureau . This region, U.S. Census Bureau Region 3, Division 5, corresponds to
49-474: Was first formed in 1912 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. The following universities were members of
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