The Evergreen Conference (EvCo), known as the Tri-Normal League from 1920 to 1938 and the Washington Intercollegiate Conference (WINCO) from 1938 to 1947, was an intercollegiate athletic conference composed of member schools located in the states of

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, and

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and, for a time, the Canadian province of

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. The league existed from 1938 to 1984.Evergreen Conference
, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 22 2015. Most of the conference's members subsequently joined the

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Members

*The following is an incomplete list of the membership of the Evergreen Conference.

Membership timeline

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Football champions

Tri-Normal League (1920–1937)

*1920 –

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*1921 – Normal–Cheney *1922 – ''Unknown'' *1923 – Normal–Cheney and Normal–Bellingham *1924 – Normal–Bellingham *1925 – Normal–Cheney *1926 – Normal–Ellensburg *1927 – Normal–Ellensburg *1928 – Normal–Ellensburg *1929 – Normal–Ellensburg *1930 – ''Unknown'' *1931 – ''Unknown'' *1932 – ''Unknown'' *1933 – Normal–Ellensburg *1934 – Normal–Cheney *1935 – Normal–Cheney *1936 – Normal–Cheney *1937 – Normal–Cheney

Washington Intercollegiate Conference (1938–1947)

*1938 –

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*1939 –

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& Pacific Lutheran *1940 – Pacific Lutheran *1941 – Pacific Lutheran *1942 –

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*1943 – ''No champion'' *1944 – ''No champion'' *1945 – ''No champion'' *1946 – Central Washington *1947 – Eastern Washington & Pacific Lutheran

Evergreen Conference (1948–1984)

*1948 – Eastern Washington and

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*1949 – Eastern Washington and Puget Sound *1950 – Eastern Washington *1951 – Pacific Lutheran, Puget Sound, and Western Washington *1952 – Pacific Lutheran *1953 – Puget Sound and Whitworth *1954 – Whitworth *1955 – Whitworth *1956 – Puget Sound *1957 – Central Washington *1958 – Central Washington and Western Washington *1959 – Whitworth *1960 – Whitworth *1961 – Central Washington *1962 – Whitworth *1963 – Central Washington *1964 – Pacific Lutheran *1965 – Eastern Washington *1966 – Eastern Washington *1967 – Eastern Washington *1968 – Central Washington *1969 – Eastern Washington and Western Washington *1970 – Central Washington *1971 – Western Washington *1972 – Central Washington *1973 – Central Washington *1974 –

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*1975 –

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*1976 – Western Oregon *1977 – Western Oregon *1978 – Western Oregon *1979 – Western Oregon *1980 –

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, Oregon Tech, and Western Oregon *1981 – Oregon Tech *1982 – Central Washington and Oregon Tech *1983 – Puget Sound *1984 – Central Washington

References

{{Reflist College sports in Oregon College sports in Washington (state) Sports leagues established in 1920