Volunteer State Athletic Conference

The Volunteer State Athletic Conference (VSAC) was a college athletic conference which was predominantly for smaller colleges in the U.S. state of Tennessee.^[1]

History

The VSAC was organized in the 1940s and dissolved in the early 1980s. Member schools were in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Long-term members of the conference included the institutions now known as Belmont University, Bethel College, Bryan College, Carson-Newman College, Christian Brothers University, King College, Lambuth College, Lee University, Lincoln Memorial University, Lipscomb University, Milligan College, Tusculum College, Tennessee Wesleyan College, and Union University. The conference dissolved when the institutions in the eastern portion of the state seceded to form the Tennessee Valley Athletic Conference (TVAC). Those in the western part of the state formed in turn the Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference (TCAC). The Appalachian Athletic Conference is the direct successor of the Tennessee Valley Athletic Conference and was known as such until the mid-1990s when the addition of schools in Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina necessitated the name change. The current TranSouth Athletic Conference is sometimes regarded as something of a successor to the TCAC.

Other founding members of the VSAC include East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Austin Peay State University, and Tennessee Technological University.

Football champions

1949 – Middle Tennessee State
1950 – Middle Tennessee State
1951 – Middle Tennessee State
1952 – Middle Tennessee State
1953 – Austin Peay State and Middle Tennessee State
1954 – East Tennessee State
1955 – Middle Tennessee State

1956 – Middle Tennessee State
1957 – Middle Tennessee State
1958 – Unknown
1959 – Unknown
1960 – Tennessee–Martin
1961 – Austin Peay State, Carson–Newman, and Tennessee–Martin
1962 – Tennessee–Martin

See also

List of defunct college football conferences

References

↑ Volunteer State Athletic Conference, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 23, 2015.

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