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Great Plains Athletic Conference (1972–1976)
The
Great Plains
Athletic Conference
was a
collegiate athletic conference
which operated in the
western
United States
. It was aligned with the
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
. The two allied conferences worked under the name of the
Mountain and Plains Intercollegiate Athletic Association
. It was announced on
May 15
, 1972. The founding schools were
Fort Hays State
;
Kansas State College, Pittsburg
;
Kansas State College of Emporia
;
Southern Colorado State College
;
Nebraska-Omaha
,
Northern Colorado
, and
Washburn
. The
conference
only lasted four years, as Nebraska-Omaha and Northern Colorado left for the
North Central Conference
,
Southern Colorado
went back to the RMAC, and the rest of the schools started the
Central States Intercollegiate Conference
, which merged into the
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
in 1989.
Football champions
1972 –
Kansas State Teachers–Emporia
1973 –
Kansas State
Teachers–Emporia and Northern Colorado
1974 – Northern Colorado
1975 – Northern Colorado