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The Western Interstate Conference was a short-lived intercollegiate athletic football conference that existed from 1923 to 1927. The league had members in Illinois and Iowa. [1]

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  1. Western Interstate Conference Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 26, 2015.