Who remembers the old Middle Atantic Conference?

[65 Pard]

I've been scratching my head trying to remember who was involved....Ages ago when I was at LC, we played in the MAC against Lehigh and Bucknell...Who else was a conference member??
I think maybe Gettysburg and Temple....Delaware? I remember the Hens giving us an asswhuppin every year I was there. Rutgers??

[carney2]

I've been scratching my head trying to remember who was involved....Ages ago when I was at LC, we played in the MAC against Lehigh and Bucknell...Who else was a conference member??
I think maybe Gettysburg and Temple....Delaware? I remember the Hens giving us an asswhuppin every year I was there. Rutgers??

Methinx that your only hope is to go back to your old yearbooks and check out the athletic schedules - or, better yet, maybe folks from other schools will check their old memorabilia and chime in. I am pretty certain that all of the teams you mention were in the old MAC. Delaware is a definite "yes" because I did check an old yearbook where they are mentioned as "defending MAC champions." How about Muhlenberg? They were only 15 years or so removed from their Ben Schwartswalder era. I'd bet "yes" on Rutgers too in those days. The "Middle Three" thing (Lafayette, Lehigh and Rutgers) was still mentioned occasionally.

In any event, the MAC of that time seems, in retrospect, to have been a fairly loose and disorganized collection of dissimilar schools. I never recall conference championships or conference games being anything special or out of the ordinary.

[blukeys]

The main members were.

Temple
Delaware
Gettysburg
Lafayette
Lehigh
Bucknell


There were conference champions
Rutgers was a member for a short time.

I think there was a second MAC division that had schools like Muhlenberg.

The MAC broke up when Temple decided to go "big time". I think the last MAC championship was 1966 or 1967.

[ngineer]

The main members were.

Temple
Delaware
Gettysburg
Lafayette
Lehigh
Bucknell


There were conference champions
Rutgers was a member for a short time.

I think there was a second MAC division that had schools like Muhlenberg.

The MAC broke up when Temple decided to go "big time". I think the last MAC championship was 1966 or 1967.

Yes, this left me scratchin' my head a bit. I began at Lehigh in 1970 and remembered talk about the MAC, but by then we were in the transition to D-II play. Our first couple years was a real mismash playing Rutgers, Gettysburg, C.W.Post, Drexel, Delaware, along with the annual 'regulars': Bucknell, Colgate and Lafayette.

[carney2]

The main members were.

Temple
Delaware
Gettysburg
Lafayette
Lehigh
Bucknell


There were conference champions
Rutgers was a member for a short time.

I think there was a second MAC division that had schools like Muhlenberg.

The MAC broke up when Temple decided to go "big time". I think the last MAC championship was 1966 or 1967.

Thank you, Mr. Blu.

[Go...gate]

Wasn't Albright College also in the MAC?

[LeopardFan04]

Looks like it was separated into divisions...

here's a link to the college football data warehouse page for it...

it shows the champions for the university division...

great website too...

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/conference_champs/div_champions.php?divid=22