Columbia Football Association

1990 Columbia Football Association standings
	Mount Hood League
	Mount Rainer League
	x – League champion/co-champions; ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant;

1989 Columbia Football Association standings
	Mount Hood League
	Mount Rainer League
	x – League champion/co-champions; ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant;

1988 Columbia Football Association standings
	Mount Hood League
	Mount Rainer League
	x – League champion/co-champions; ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant;

Last updated November 07, 2019

The Columbia Football Association was intercollegiate athletic football-only conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). It was composed principally of member schools from the states of Oregon and Washington. From 1988 to 1995, the conference was divided into two separate, geographic divisions, the northern Mount Rainier League (a reference to Mount Rainier in Washington) and the southern Mount Hood League (a reference to Mount Hood in Oregon).^[1] After 1995, the conference consolidated into a single division. Former members are currently scattered between NCAA Division II, and NCAA Division III, and the NAIA.

College athletics encompasses non-professional, collegiate and university-level competitive sports and games.

College football is gridiron football consisting of American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a college athletics association for small colleges and universities in North America. For the 2018–2019 season, it has 251 member institutions, of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the conterminous United States. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 26 national championships. The CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA. In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA Football National Championship.

Champions

Division format (1988–1995)

Mount Rainier League

1988 – Central Washington
1989 – Central Washington
1990 – Central Washington
1991 – Central Washington
1992 – Pacific Lutheran
1993 – Pacific Lutheran
1994 – Pacific Lutheran
1995 – Western Washington

The Western Washington Vikings program represented Western Washington University in college football at the NCAA Division II level. The Vikings were members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

Mount Hood League

1988 – Oregon Tech
1989 – Lewis & Clark
1990 – Southern Oregon
1991 – Lewis & Clark and Linfield
1992 – Linfield
1993 – Linfield
1994 – Linfield
1995 – Pacific Lutheran and Willamette

The Lewis & Clark Pioneers football team is the college football team of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The team competes in the Northwest Conference in NCAA Division III and plays its home games on campus at Griswold Stadium. The current head coach is Jay Locey, who began his tenure in 2015; he was preceded by Chris Sulages.

The Southern Oregon Raiders football team represents Southern Oregon University in the sport of American football. The Raiders team competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as an associate member of the Frontier Conference. Southern Oregon University has fielded an official football team since 1927 and has an all-time record of 349–351–15. The Raiders play in Raider Stadium in Ashland, Oregon, which has a capacity of 5,000. Southern Oregon has played in two NAIA national championship games and won thirteen conference championships in multiple conferences.

Single Division (1996–2000)

1996 – Western Washington
1997 – Central Washington and Western Oregon
1998 – Central Washington
1999 – Western Washington
2000 – Central Washington and Western Washington

Standings

1991 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Mount Hood League
Lewis & Clark x^	5	–	1	–	0	7	–	2	–	1
Linfield x^	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
Southern Oregon	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	1
Oregon Tech	3	–	3	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Eastern Oregon	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Willamette	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Western Oregon	0	–	6	–	0	0	–	9	–	0
Mount Rainer League
Central Washington x^	6	–	0	–	0	9	–	1	–	0
Pacific Lutheran ^	5	–	1	–	0	11	–	2	–	0
Western Washington	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	1
Simon Fraser	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Puget Sound	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	5	–	1
Whitworth	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Pacific (OR)	0	–	6	–	0	0	–	9	–	0

x – League champion/co-champions ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant

1992 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Mount Hood League
Linfield x^	6	–	0	–	0	12	–	1	–	0
Lewis & Clark	4	–	2	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Western Oregon	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Eastern Oregon	3	–	3	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Southern Oregon	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Oregon Tech	2	–	4	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
Willamette	1	–	5	–	0	1	–	8	–	0
Mount Rainer League
Pacific Lutheran x^	5	–	0	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
Western Washington ^	3	–	2	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Central Washington	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Simon Fraser	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Puget Sound	1	–	4	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Whitworth	0	–	5	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

x – League champion/co-champions ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant

1993 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Mount Hood League
Linfield x^	4	–	1	–	0	6	–	3	–	1
Willamette	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Southern Oregon	3	–	2	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Eastern Oregon	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Lewis & Clark	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Western Oregon	1	–	4	–	0	3	–	5	–	1
Mount Rainer League
Pacific Lutheran x^	5	–	0	–	0	12	–	0	–	1
Central Washington ^	4	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
Western Washington	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Simon Fraser	2	–	3	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Whitworth	1	–	4	–	0	1	–	8	–	0
Puget Sound	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	8	–	1

x – League champion/co-champions ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant

1995 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Mount Hood League
Pacific Lutheran x^	4	–	0	–	1	6	–	3	–	1
Willamette x	4	–	0	–	1	6	–	2	–	1
Linfield	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Puget Sound	2	–	3	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
Lewis & Clark	1	–	4	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Whitworth	0	–	5	–	0	1	–	8	–	0
Mount Rainer League
Western Washington x^	5	–	0	–	0	9	–	1	–	0
Central Washington ^	4	–	1	–	0	10	–	3	–	1
Simon Fraser	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Southern Oregon	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Western Oregon	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
Eastern Oregon	1	–	4	–	0	1	–	8	–	0

x – League champion/co-champions ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant

1996 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Western Washington $^		4	–	1		11	–	2
Simon Fraser		3	–	2		6	–	4
Central Washington		3	–	2		5	–	5
Eastern Oregon		2	–	3		6	–	4
Western Oregon		2	–	3		3	–	7
Southern Oregon		1	–	4		4	–	6

$ – Conference champion ^ – NAIA Division II playoff participant

1997 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Western Oregon $		4	–	1		7	–	3
Central Washington		3	–	2		5	–	4
Southern Oregon		3	–	2		5	–	4
Western Washington		3	–	2		5	–	5
Simon Fraser		1	–	4		2	–	7
Humboldt State		1	–	4		2	–	8

$ – Conference champion

1998 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Central Washington $		4	–	1		7	–	4
Western Washington		3	–	2		5	–	5
Humboldt State		3	–	2		4	–	7
Western Oregon		2	–	3		4	–	5
Southern Oregon		2	–	3		4	–	6
Simon Fraser		1	–	4		3	–	6

$ – Conference champion

1999 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Western Washington $		4	–	0		8	–	3
Western Oregon		3	–	1		5	–	5
Central Washington		2	–	2		4	–	5
Simon Fraser		1	–	3		4	–	6
Humboldt State		0	–	4		3	–	7

$ – Conference champion

2000 Columbia Football Association standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Western Washington +		3	–	1		7	–	3
Central Washington +		3	–	1		5	–	5
Western Oregon		2	–	2		6	–	5
Humboldt State		1	–	3		4	–	7
Simon Fraser		1	–	3		2	–	8

+ – Conference co-champions

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References

↑ English, Reid (September 13, 1988). "NAIA schools form a new league". Statesman Journal . Salem, Oregon. p. 3D. Retrieved November 6, 2019– via Newspapers.com .

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[1] English, Reid (September 13, 1988). "NAIA schools form a new league". Statesman Journal . Salem, Oregon. p. 3D. Retrieved November 6, 2019– via Newspapers.com .