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The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the fourth-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the Midwest though with substantial extension into the South in states like Kentucky , Tennessee , and Arkansas .
Missouri Valley may refer to: Missouri Valley, Iowa, a small city; Missouri River Valley; Missouri Valley Conference, an NCAA Division I non-football college athletic conference; Missouri Valley Football Conference, an NCAA Division I FCS college athletic conference; Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, a former college ...
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.
The Missouri River Valley outlines the journey of the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the valley drains one-sixth of the United States, [1] and is the longest river ...
The Missouri Valley Football Conference has a complex history that involves three other conferences: Missouri Valley Conference (MVC): A long-established conference, in existence since 1907, that sponsored football until 1985. In its last years as a football conference, it was a hybrid league that included teams in NCAA Divisions I-A (today's ...
[10] [8] Missouri Valley was a true railroad town in the late 1800s. The Sioux City and Pacific's headquarters was there and with it came the associated repair and machine shops, blacksmith, round house, etc. By 1896 population was approaching 4,000 and 25 passenger trains were coming in and out of Missouri Valley each day on 3 different lines ...
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football.It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) [2] by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, [2] University of Nebraska, and Washington University in ...
Manuel Lisa, for St Louis Missouri Fur Company, safely conducts Big White to his home in North Dakota. Finds Rees friendly. 1810. Loisel post burned with large stock of furs. 1811. Astorian party go up Missouri to Grand River where they buy horses of Rees and go thence up Grand River toward Pacific. First recorded exploration of northern Black ...