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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
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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

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:750 height:auto barincrement:24 Period = from:1939 till:1966 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:0 left:0 bottom:50 top:0 Colors = id:barcolor value:black id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:NMC value:rgb(1,0.498,0.314) id:Fron value:rgb(0.6,0.6,1) PlotData= width:20 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:NMC from:1940 till:1951 text: Panhandle A&M (1940–1950) bar:2 color:NMC from:1940 till:1954 text:
Eastern New Mexico 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) bar:3 color:NMC from:1940 till:1955 text: New Mexico Military (1940–1957) bar:3 color:Fron from:1955 till:1958 bar:4 color:NMC from:1940 till:1955 text: New Mexico Highlands (1940–1962) bar:4 color:Fron from:1955 till:1963 bar:5 color:NMC from:1940 till:1955 text: New Mexico State Teachers' (1940–1962) bar:5 color:Fron from:1955 till:1963 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) bar:7 color:Fron from:1955 till:1956 bar:8 color:NMC from:1948 till:1951 text: St. Michael's (1948–1950) bar:9 color:NMC from:1953 till:1955 text: Arizona State College (1953–1962) bar:9 color:Fron from:1955 till:1963 ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1940 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(100,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"New Mexico / Frontier Conference membership history"


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