SOUTHWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

former American collegiate athletic organization founded in 1914 with eight members: Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College (later University), Baylor University, Oklahoma Agriculture and Mining (A&M) College (later Oklahoma State University), William Marsh Rice Institute (later Rice University), Southwestern University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Texas (later the University of Texas at Austin). Later Southwestern University (1916), Oklahoma (1920), and Oklahoma A&M (1925) left the conference, while Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Texas Technical University, and the University of Houston eventually joined. Arkansas left the conference in 1991. The conference disbanded in 1996.