The Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) was an NCAA Division II college athletic association that sponsored American football that was founded in 1925. It disbanded in 1998 after the majority of its member schools were forced to drop football.

History

The NCAC was founded as the Far Western Conference (FWC) in 1925 by its charter member schools: Fresno State,

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, UC Davis, Nevada, San Jose State and Pacific. Nevada's departure from the conference in 1940 left the conference with only four members; Chico State, Fresno State, College of the Pacific and UC Davis. The conference looked to four nominees in Humboldt State, San Francisco State, Santa Barbara State and California Poly of San Luis Obispo. Shortly after World War II, all of these charter members, with the exception of UC Davis, would leave for other conferences, to be replaced by San Francisco State, Sacramento State, Hayward State, Southern Oregon,

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and

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. During the 1990s, each of the universities associated with the California State system chose to disband their football teams in order to comply with Title IX, with the exception of Humboldt State, which added two women's sports to achieve compliance and Sacramento State.

Members

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:25 Period = from:1925 till:2000 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:20 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:Full from:1925 till:1993 text: UC Davis (1925–1998) bar:1 color:Fullxf from:1993 till:1998 bar:2 color:Full from:1925 till:1927 text: Saint Mary's (CA) (1925–1927) bar:2 color:AssocF from:1927 till:1929 bar:3 color:Full from:1925 till:1940 text: Nevada (1925–1940, 1953–1969) bar:3 color:FullxF from:1953 till:1954 text: Nevada bar:3 color:Full from:1954 till:1969 bar:4 color:Full from:1925 till:1942 text: Pacific (CA) (1925–1942) bar:4 color:AssocF from:1942 till:1943 bar:5 color:Full from:1925 till:1940 text: Fresno State (1925–1940) bar:6 color:Full from:1927 till:1929 text: St. Ignatius (1927–1929) bar:7 color:FullxF from:1928 till:1929 text:

(1928–1998) bar:7 color:Full from:1929 till:1997 bar:7 color:Fullxf from:1997 till:1998 bar:8 color:Full from:1929 till:1935 text: San Jose State (1929–1935) bar:9 color:Full from:1940 till:1997 text:

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(1940–1998) bar:9 color:Fullxf from:1997 till:1998 bar:10 color:Full from:1946 till:1951 text: San Francisco State (1946–1951, 1953–1998) bar:10 color:AssocF from:1951 till:1953 bar:10 color:Full from:1953 till:1995 bar:10 color:Fullxf from:1995 till:1998 bar:11 color:Full from:1947 till:1953 text: Southern Oregon (1947–1953) bar:11 color:AssocF from:1953 till:1955 bar:12 color:FullxF from:1953 till:1954 text: Sacramento State (1953–1985) bar:12 color:Full from:1954 till:1985 bar:13 color:FullxF from:1964 till:1965 text: Cal State Hayward (1964–1998) bar:13 color:Full from:1965 till:1994 bar:13 color:Fullxf from:1994 till:1998 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1966 till:1970 text:

(1966–1974, 1982–1998) bar:14 color:Full from:1970 till:1972 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1972 till:1974 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1982 till:1983 bar:14 color:Full from:1983 till:1997 bar:14 color:Fullxf from:1997 till:1998 bar:15 color:FullxF from:1975 till:1998 text:

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(1975–1998) bar:16 color:FullxF from:1988 till:1998 text: Notre Dame (CA) (1988–1998) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1925

Conference champions

Football

* 1925:

* 1926:

* 1927:

* 1928:

* 1929: Cal Aggies * 1930: Fresno State * 1931: No champion * 1932: Nevada & San Jose State * 1933: Nevada * 1934: San Jose State & Fresno State * 1935: Fresno State * 1936: Pacific (CA) * 1937: Fresno State * 1938: Pacific (CA) * 1939: Nevada * 1940: Pacific (CA) * 1941: Pacific (CA) * 1942: Pacific (CA) * 1943: No champion * 1944: No champion * 1945: No champion * 1946: No champion * 1947: Cal Aggies & * 1948: * 1949: Cal Aggies * 1950: San Francisco State * 1951: Cal Aggies * 1952:

* 1953:

* 1954: San Francisco State * 1955: No champion * 1956: Cal Aggies, San Francisco State, &

* 1957: San Francisco State * 1958: San Francisco State * 1959: San Francisco State * 1960:

* 1961:

& San Francisco State * 1962: San Francisco State * 1963: UC Davis,

, & San Francisco State * 1964: Sacramento State * 1965: San Francisco State * 1966: Sacramento State * 1967: San Francisco State * 1968:

* 1969: Cal State Hayward * 1970: Cal State Hayward &

* 1971: UC Davis &

* 1972: UC Davis * 1973: UC Davis &

* 1974: UC Davis * 1975: UC Davis * 1976: UC Davis * 1977: UC Davis * 1978: UC Davis * 1979: UC Davis * 1980: UC Davis * 1981: Cal State Hayward & UC Davis * 1982: UC Davis * 1983: UC Davis * 1984: UC Davis * 1985: UC Davis * 1986: UC Davis * 1987: UC Davis * 1988: UC Davis * 1989: UC Davis * 1990: UC Davis * 1991:

* 1992: UC Davis * 1993:

* 1994:

, &

* 1995:

* 1996:

Baseball

*1983: San Francisco State *1990:

*1991:

*1992:

*1998:

Women's volleyball

*1995:

*1997:

Men's soccer

*1974: Cal-State Hayward *1975: Cal-State Hayward *1976: Cal-State Hayward *1977: *1978: *1979: *1980: *1981: *1982: Cal-State Hayward *1983: Cal-State Hayward *1984: Cal-State Hayward *1985:

*1986:

*1987:

*1988: Cal-State Hayward *1989: Cal-State Hayward *1990:

*1991:

*1993:

*1995:

*1996:

*1997:

Women's soccer

*1982: *1983: Cal-State Hayward *1984: Cal-State Hayward *1985: Cal-State Hayward *1986: Cal-State Hayward *1987: Cal-State Hayward *1988: Cal-State Hayward (** National Champions **)

Women's basketball