College Football - Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
In 1969 Dr. Leroy T. Walker invited a group of intercollegiate athletics representatives to meet in Durham, North Carolina College to discuss the feasibility of organizing a new conference based along the Atlantic coastline.
A total of seven of these institutions agreed to become the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. They were: Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University & South Carolina State University.
The league was confirmed in 1970, kicking off its first season of competition in football in 1971.
In 1978, the MEAC selected its first full-time commissioner, Kenneth A. Free and the following year, expanded to nine schools with the admission of two Florida schools: Bethune-Cookman College and Florida A&M University.
The MEAC operated with nine schools until 1985 when Coppin State University was admitted. The next expansion occurred in the 1990s with the inclusion of Hampton University in 1995 and Norfolk State University in 1997.
The MEAC center of operations moved to Greensboro, North Carolina on March 26, 1982.
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