 Program for the 1904 WWIAA Track and Field meet in Tacoma | |
| Founded | April 4, 1891 [1] |
|---|---|
| Ceased | c. 1899 [2] |
| Region | Western Washington |
The Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association (WWIAA) was an early athletic conference governing competition between member institutions in Western Washington on the Puget Sound. [1] [3]
| Member institution | Date joined | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound University | April 1891 [1] [4] | |
| Whitworth College | ||
| Washington College | ||
| University of Washington | ||
| Tacoma Academy | ||
| Seattle University | March 1893 [5] [6] | |
| Vashon College | ||
| Olympia Collegiate Institute | ||
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By its provisions the new association will be known as the Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, the main objects of which will be the holding of an annual field day, with the general purpose of encouraging athletics.
Lovers of athletic sports will be sorry to learn that there is to be no intercollegiate field meet this year. The Western Washington Intercollegiate Athletic Association has fallen to pieces.
The six Washington colleges—Walla Walla, University of Washington, Whitworth College, Puget Sound University, Vashon College, and Pullman Agricultural College—are organized into the Western Washington Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, which annually holds a series of contests in football, baseball, and track athletics.
The institutions holding membership in the association were represented as follows: Washington college, Tacoma; Puget Sound university, Tacoma; Tacoma academy; State university, Seattle. Whitworth college, of Sumner, holds membership but was not represented.
...the coming field day of the Intercollegiate Association [...] The present members of the association are the state university, Tacoma academy, Washington college, of Tacoma; Puget Sound university, of Tacoma, and Whitworth college, of Sumner. Applications for membership have been received from Seattle university, Chehalis college and Vashon college, and they will ail probably be admitted.
Delegates were present from the State University of Washington, Puget Sound University, Whitworth College, of Sumner; Vashon University, of Quartermaster; Olympia Collegiate Institute, Seattle University and Tacoma Academy.
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