Mississippi Valley Conference (college)

The Mississippi Valley Conference was an intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from 1928 to 1934. The league had members in the states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.^[1]

The Mississippi Valley Conference was formed on December 10, 1927, in Memphis, Tennessee, with ten charter members:

• Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky
• Bethel College—now known as Bethel University—in McKenzie, Tennessee
• Delta State Teachers College—now known as Delta State University—in Cleveland, Mississippi
• Jonesboro College in Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Lambuth College—now known as Lambuth University—in Jackson, Tennessee
• Murray State Teachers College—now known as Murray State University—in Murray, Kentucky
• Sunflower Junior College—now known as Mississippi Delta Community College—in Moorhead, Mississippi
• University of Tennessee Junior College—now known as the University of Tennessee at Martin—in Martin, Tennessee
• West Tennessee State Teachers College—now known as the University of Memphis—in Memphis, Tennessee
• Will Mayfield College in Marble Hill, Missouri^[2][3]

Three more schools were admitted to the conference in December 1930:

• Freed–Hardeman College—now known as Freed–Hardeman University—in Henderson, Tennessee
• Middle Tennessee State Teachers College—now known as Middle Tennessee State University—in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
• Tennessee Polytechnic Institute—now known as Tennessee Tech—Cookeville, Tennessee^[4]

Murray State withdrew from the conference in January 1931, after the school was admitted to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).^[5]