The Frontier Conference, known as the New Mexico Conference and New Mexico Intercollegiate Conference from 1940 to 1955, was an
intercollegiate athletic conference composed of member schools located in the states of
Arizona
Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...
,
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
,
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...
,
Oklahoma
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, and
Texas
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. The league existed from 1940 to 1962.
[Frontier (NM) Conference]
, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 22 2015.
Membership
Former members
*The following is an incomplete list of the membership of the Frontier Conference.
Membership timeline
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Eastern New Mexico is a physiographic subregion within the U.S. state of New Mexico. The region is sometimes called the " High Plains", or "Eastern Plains (of New Mexico)", and was historically referred to as part of the "Great American Desert". T ...
(1940–1953)
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bar:6 color:NMC from:1946 till:1950 text: Sul Ross State (1946–1949)
bar:7 color:NMC from:1946 till:1955 text: Adams State (1946–1955)
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Football championships and postseason appearances
See also
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List of defunct college football conferences
This is a list of defunct college football conferences in the United States and a defunct university football conference in Canada. Not all of the conferences listed here are truly defunct. Some simply stopped sponsoring football and continue under ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frontier Conference (1940-1962)
1940 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1940
Organizations disestablished in 1962