Thanks. At least my memory hasn't totally gone to pot.
Jon Bell wrote:
> In article ,
> Frank F. Matthews wrote:
> [Dave Hatunen wrote:]
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>>>I don't beleive the WAC ever went as far east as Ohio; the
>>>original members were Arizona, Arizona State, Brigham Young, New
>>>Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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>>I understand that the current WAC is something different. My memory is
>>that the formal name for the Big 10 was WAC back a century or so ago.
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> The short history of the Big Ten at
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> refers to the "Western Conference" as an alternate name for what was
> founded in 1895 as the "Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty
> Representatives," which started out with seven members, not ten.
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> Note also that the U of Michigan's fight song contains the following line:
> "Hail, hail to Michigan, the champions of the West!"
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