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Houston's 1952 Missouri Valley Conference championship trophy. The Missouri Valley Conference started sponsoring football in the fall of 1907. In 1951 Drake University and Bradley University left the Missouri Valley Conference as a result of the Johnny Bright incident, a racially motivated on-field attack against Drake's black star Johnny Bright by a white Oklahoma A&M player.
This change aligned the conference with the Missouri Valley Conference, a conference in which five of the nine Missouri Valley Football schools were (and still are) all-sports members. The conferences continue to share the "Missouri Valley" name, and space in the same building in St. Louis, but remain separate administratively. [8]
University of Missouri–Kansas City: Kansas City: Summit: Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions [a] Lindenwood University: St. Charles: Ohio Valley: FCS [b] [b] Missouri Tigers: University of Missouri: Columbia: SEC: FBS: Missouri State Bears and Lady Bears: Missouri State University: Springfield: Missouri Valley: FCS [c] Saint Louis Billikens ...
The 1961 Missouri Valley Vikings football team was an American football that represented Missouri Valley College as a member of the Missouri College Athletic Union ...
Note: The conference was known as the Gateway Football Conference prior from 1992-2008. Then, from 1982-92 the conference was known as the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference. ^ Final ranking after the championship game that season ^^ The STATS poll was supplied by The Sports Network prior to 2015
The 1949 Missouri Valley Vikings football team represented Missouri Valley College as a member of the Missouri College Athletic Union (MCAU) during the 1949 college football season. Led by 10th-year head coach Volney Ashford , the Vikings compiled an overall record of 8–3 with a mark of 3–0 in conference play, winning the MCAU title. [ 1 ]
Sep. 24—GRAND FORKS — Only three teams in the Missouri Valley Football Conference played games this weekend, but there was still plenty to learn about the resumés of the league after four ...
Within the Ohio Valley Conference, Murray State has an interstate rivalry with Southeast Missouri, [citation needed] whose campus is about 90 miles northwest of Murray in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Murray State enters the 2022 season with a 42–13–1 series lead; the series began in 1926 and has most recently been annually played since 1991.