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Twenty-two years ago, the Southwest Conference, one of the oldest conferences, in college athletics disbanded. The conference was originally established by Texas athletics director L. Theo Bellmont in 1914 after he sent letters to several schools throughout Texas and neighboring states to gauge their interest in forming a league.
Who were the eight original members of the Southwest Conference?
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Answer
Arkansas
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Rice
Southwestern
Texas
Texas A&M
Arkansas, Baylor, Rice, Texas and Texas A&M were the only five schools to remain in the conference until 1996. Southwestern was the first original member to leave, doing so in 1916. Oklahoma left in 1919 and Oklahoma did the same six years later.
SMU and TCU in 1918 and 1923, respectively, and stayed until 1996. Phillips, a now-defunct private school in Oklahoma, was a member for only one year (1920). Texas Tech arrived in 1956 and Houston in 1972 (although Houston football didn't join until 1976) and both schools remained until 1996.
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