The Midwest Athletic Association was an intercollegiate athletic conference of

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(HBCUs) that existed from 1926 to 1970. It was later known as the Midwest Conference from 1962 to 1963 and as the Midwestern Conference from 1964 to 1970. The conference's membership was widespread due to the lack of HBCUs in the Midwest, with members located in

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Members

# Known as Bluefield Institute until 1931. # Known as Kentucky State Industrial College until 1938. # Known as West Virginia Institute until 1929. # Team name was Green Wave until 1947. # Known as Tennessee A&I State College until 1968. # Known as Wilberforce State College until 1951, and Central State College until 1965. # Known as Green Wave until 1951.

Football champions

Midwest Athletic Association

*1926 – Wilberforce *1927 – Bluefield *1928 – Bluefield *1929 – Wilberforce *1930 – Wilberforce *1931 – Wilberforce *1932 –

Kentucky State Kentucky State University (KSU and KYSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, and becoming a land-grant college in 1890, KSU is the second ...

*1933 – Wilberforce *1934 – Kentucky State *1935 – Wilberforce *1936 – West Virginia State *1937 – Kentucky State *1938 – Kentucky State *1939 – Wilberforce *1940 – Wilberforce *1941 – Kentucky State *1942 – Kentucky State *1943 – ''No champion'' *1944 – ''No champion'' *1945 –

Tennessee A&I Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State, or TSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennes ...

*1946 –

*1947 –

*1948 – Wilberforce State *1949 –

*1950 – Wilberforce State *1951 – Wilberforce State *1952 – Lincoln (MO) and

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*1953 – Lincoln (MO) *1954 –

*1955 –

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*1956 –

*1957 –

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and Tennessee A&I *1958 – Lincoln (MO) *1959 – Tennessee A&I *1960 – Tennessee A&I *1961 – Tennessee A&I

Midwest Conference

*1962 – Lincoln (MO) *1963 – Tennessee A&I

Midwestern Conference

*1964 – Tennessee A&I *1965 – Tennessee A&I *1966 – Tennessee A&I

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