The Texas Eastern Conference (TEC) is a

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with member schools located in

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. The conference was founded in 1958 with four charter members:

Kilgore College Kilgore College (KC) is a public community college in Kilgore, Texas. It has an annual enrollment in excess of 5,000 students and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the associate ...

Paris Junior College Paris Junior College (PJC) is a Public college, public community college with three campuses in East Texas: Paris, Texas, Paris, Greenville, Texas, Greenville, and Sulphur Springs, Texas, Sulphur Springs. The college was founded in 1924 as a cam ...

Texarkana College Texarkana College is a public community college in Texarkana, Texas. History Texarkana College was founded in 1927 as part of the Texarkana Independent School District. In 1941, the Texarkana College District was established. In 1948, twenty ...

, and

Tyler Junior College Tyler Junior College (TJC) is a public community college in Tyler, Texas. It is one of the largest community colleges in the state, with an enrollment of more than 12,000 credit students and an additional 20,000 continuing education enrollments a ...

. Kilgore joined after having been a member of the Longhorn Conference and then briefly aligned with the Pioneer Conference. Henderson County Junior College—now known as

Trinity Valley Community College Trinity Valley Community College (TVCC) is a public community college based in Athens, Texas. It has six campuses serving five counties across the southeast and eastern parts of the state. History TVCC was founded in 1946 as Henderson County Jun ...

—was added to the conference in late 1959, in time to compete in the

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season that winter.

Lon Morris College Lon Morris College (LMC) was a private junior college located in Jacksonville, Texas, United States, and was the only school affiliated with the United Methodist Church that was owned by an individual conference and not the denomination ...

, which did not have a football team, joined as the TEC's sixth member just after the new year in 1960, also in time for the basketball season. Jacksonville Baptist College—now known as

Jacksonville College Jacksonville College is a private Christian junior college in Jacksonville, Texas. It is the only accredited junior college in Texas that is privately owned and operated, owned by the Baptist Missionary Association of America. The college i ...

—joined as the TEC's seventh member in the fall of 1960. In 1964, the Texas Junior College Football Federation (TJCFF)—now known as the

Southwest Junior College Football Conference The Southwest Junior College Football Conference (SWJCFC or SJCFC) is a football conference for National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) teams located in the Southwestern United States. The conference formed in 1963 with nine junior coll ...

(SWJCFC)—was formed to sponsor only

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. All four members of the TEC that still had a football program—Henderson County, Kilgore, Texarkana, and Tyler—joined the TJCFF, but remained TEC members for all other sports.

Yearly football standings

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