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Northern California Athletic Conference

Former NCAA Division II football conference

Field	Value
name	Northern California Athletic Conference
logo	Northern California Athletic Conference logo.png
logo_size	150
founded
dissolved
conference	NCAA
division	Division II
teams	16 (total)
region	West Coast
formerly	Far Western Conference (1925–1982)

The Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) was an NCAA Division II college athletic association that sponsored American football that was founded in 1925. It disbanded in 1998 after the majority of its member schools were forced to drop football.

History

The NCAC was founded as the Far Western Conference (FWC) in 1925 by its charter member schools: Fresno State, Saint Mary's, UC Davis, Nevada, San Jose State and College of the Pacific.

Nevada's departure from the conference in 1940 left the conference with only four members: Chico State, Fresno State, College of the Pacific and UC Davis. The conference looked to four nominees in Humboldt State (joined in 1940), San Francisco State, Santa Barbara State College (later UC Santa Barbara) and California Poly of San Luis Obispo.

Shortly after World War II, the remaining members, with the exception of UC Davis, Chico State and Humboldt State, would leave for other conferences, to be replaced over the years by San Francisco State (joined in 1946), Southern Oregon (1947), Sacramento State (1953), Hayward State (1961) and Sonoma State (1966). During the 1990s, each of the universities associated with the California State system chose to disband their football teams in order to comply with Title IX, with the exception of Humboldt State, which added two women's sports to achieve compliance, Sacramento State, and Cal Poly.

Members

Institution	Location	Founded	Nickname	Joined	Left	Current
conference	Cal State Hayward	Chico State	Fresno State	Humboldt State	Nevada	Notre Dame (CA)	Pacific (CA)	Sacramento State	St. Ignatius	Saint Mary's	San Francisco State	San Jose State	Sonoma State	Southern Oregon	Stanislaus State	UC Davis
Hayward, CA	1956	Pioneers	1961	1998	CCAA
Chico, CA	1887	Wildcats	1928	1998	CCAA
Fresno, CA	1911	Bulldogs	1925	1940	Mountain West
(Pac-12 in 2026)
Arcata, CA	1913	Lumberjacks	1940	1998	CCAA
Reno, NV	1874	Wolf Pack	1925
1953	1940
1969	Mountain West
Belmont, CA	1851	Argonauts	1988	1998	Discontinued athletics
Stockton, CA	1911	Tigers	1925	1942	West Coast
Sacramento, CA	1947	Hornets	1953	1985	Big Sky
San Francisco, CA	1855	Dons	1927	1929	West Coast
Moraga, CA	1863	Gaels	1925	1927	West Coast
San Francisco, CA	1899	Gators	1946
1953	1951
1998	CCAA
San Jose, CA	1857	Spartans	1929	1935	Mountain West
Rohnert Park, CA	1960	Cossacks	1966
1982	1974
1998	CCAA
Ashland, OR	1872	Raiders	1947	1953	Cascade Collegiate
Turlock, CA	1957	Warriors	1975	1998	CCAA
Davis, CA	1905	Aggies	1925	1998	Big West
(Mountain West in 2026)

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:25 Period = from:1925 till:2000 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5

Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:line value:black id:bg value:white

PlotData= width:20 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s

bar:1 color:Full from:1925 till:1993 text:UC Davis (1925–1998) bar:1 color:Fullxf from:1993 till:1998 bar:2 color:Full from:1925 till:1927 text:Saint Mary's (CA) (1925–1927) bar:2 color:AssocF from:1927 till:1929 bar:3 color:Full from:1925 till:1940 text:Nevada (1925–1940, 1953–1969) bar:3 color:FullxF from:1953 till:1954 text:Nevada bar:3 color:Full from:1954 till:1969 bar:4 color:Full from:1925 till:1942 text:Pacific (CA) (1925–1942) bar:4 color:AssocF from:1942 till:1943 bar:5 color:Full from:1925 till:1940 text:Fresno State (1925–1940) bar:6 color:Full from:1927 till:1929 text:St. Ignatius (1927–1929) bar:7 color:FullxF from:1928 till:1929 text:Chico State (1928–1998) bar:7 color:Full from:1929 till:1997 bar:7 color:Fullxf from:1997 till:1998 bar:8 color:Full from:1929 till:1935 text:San Jose State (1929–1935) bar:9 color:Full from:1940 till:1997 text:Humboldt State (1940–1998) bar:9 color:Fullxf from:1997 till:1998 bar:10 color:Full from:1946 till:1951 text:San Francisco State (1946–1951, 1953–1998) bar:10 color:AssocF from:1951 till:1953 bar:10 color:Full from:1953 till:1995 bar:10 color:Fullxf from:1995 till:1998 bar:11 color:Full from:1947 till:1953 text:Southern Oregon (1947–1953) bar:11 color:AssocF from:1953 till:1955 bar:12 color:FullxF from:1953 till:1954 text:Sacramento State (1953–1985) bar:12 color:Full from:1954 till:1985 bar:13 color:FullxF from:1964 till:1965 text:Cal State Hayward (1964–1998) bar:13 color:Full from:1965 till:1994 bar:13 color:Fullxf from:1994 till:1998 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1966 till:1970 text:Sonoma State (1966–1974, 1982–1998) bar:14 color:Full from:1970 till:1972 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1972 till:1974 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1982 till:1983 bar:14 color:Full from:1983 till:1997 bar:14 color:Fullxf from:1997 till:1998 bar:15 color:FullxF from:1975 till:1998 text:Stanislaus State (1975–1998) bar:16 color:FullxF from:1988 till:1998 text:Notre Dame (CA) (1988–1998)

ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1925

Conference champions

Football

1925: Saint Mary's
1926: Saint Mary's
1927: Saint Mary's
1928: Saint Mary's
1929: Cal Aggies
1930: Fresno State
1931: No champion
1932: Nevada & San Jose State
1933: Nevada
1934: San Jose State & Fresno State
1935: Fresno State
1936: Pacific (CA)
1937: Fresno State
1938: Pacific (CA)
1939: Nevada
1940: Pacific (CA)
1941: Pacific (CA)
1942: Pacific (CA)
1943: No champion
1944: No champion
1945: No champion
1946: No champion
1947: Cal Aggies &
1948:
1949: Cal Aggies
1950: San Francisco State
1951: Cal Aggies
1952: Humboldt State
1953: Chico State
1954: San Francisco State
1955: No champion
1956: Cal Aggies, San Francisco State, & Humboldt State
1957: San Francisco State
1958: San Francisco State
1959: San Francisco State
1960: Humboldt State
1961: Humboldt State & San Francisco State
1962: San Francisco State
1963: UC Davis, Humboldt State, & San Francisco State
1964: Sacramento State
1965: San Francisco State
1966: Sacramento State
1967: San Francisco State
1968: Humboldt State
1969: Cal State Hayward
1970: Cal State Hayward & Chico State
1971: UC Davis & Chico State
1972: UC Davis
1973: UC Davis & Chico State
1974: UC Davis
1975: UC Davis
1976: UC Davis
1977: UC Davis
1978: UC Davis
1979: UC Davis
1980: UC Davis
1981: Cal State Hayward & UC Davis
1982: UC Davis
1983: UC Davis
1984: UC Davis
1985: UC Davis
1986: UC Davis
1987: UC Davis
1988: UC Davis
1989: UC Davis
1990: UC Davis
1991: Sonoma State
1992: UC Davis
1993: Chico State
1994: Chico State, Humboldt State, & Sonoma State
1995: Humboldt State
1996: Chico State

Baseball

1948: Chico State
1949: Chico State
1950: Chico State
1951: UC Davis
1952: Chico State
1953: Chico State & Sacramento State
1954: Chico State & Sacramento State
1955: Sacramento State
1956: Sacramento State
1957: Sacramento State
1958: Sacramento State
1959: Sacramento State & Chico State
1960: Sacramento State
1961: Sacramento State & San Francisco State
1962: San Francisco State
1963: San Francisco State
1964: Sacramento State
1965: Sacramento State
1968: Sacramento State
1969: Sacramento State & San Francisco State
1970: Sacramento State
1971: Sacramento State
1972: Cal State Hayward
1973: UC Davis
1974: Sacramento State & UC Davis
1975: Sacramento State
1976: UC Davis
1977: Cal State Hayward
1978: Chico State
1979: UC Davis
1983: San Francisco State & Chico State
1984: UC Davis
1985: Sacramento State (Final season in league), Chico State, & UC Davis
1986: San Francisco State
1987: Chico State
1989: San Francisco State
1990: Sonoma State UC Davis
1991: Sonoma State
1992: Sonoma State
1993: UC Davis
1994: UC Davis
1995: San Francisco State
1996: Chico State
1997: Chico State
1998: Sonoma State & Chico State

Total Baseball Championships

Sacramento State - 18
Chico State - 14
UC Davis - 9
San Francisco State - 8
Sonoma State - 4
Cal State Hayward - 2

Women's volleyball

1982: Sacramento State
1983: Sacramento State
1984: Sacramento State
1995: Sonoma State
1997: Sonoma State

Men's soccer

1974: Cal-State Hayward
1975: Cal-State Hayward
1976: Cal-State Hayward
1977:
1978:
1979:
1980:
1981:
1982: Cal-State Hayward
1983: Cal-State Hayward
1984: Cal-State Hayward
1985: Chico State
1986: Chico State
1987: Chico State
1988: Cal-State Hayward
1989: Cal-State Hayward
1990: Sonoma State
1991: Sonoma State
1993: Sonoma State
1995: Sonoma State
1996: Sonoma State
1997: Sonoma State

Women's soccer

1982:
1983: Cal-State Hayward
1984: Cal-State Hayward
1985: Cal-State Hayward
1986: Cal-State Hayward
1987: Cal-State Hayward
1988: Cal-State Hayward (National champions)

Women's basketball

1998: Sonoma State

Softball

1978:
1982: Fresno State
1983:
1985:
1986:

References

(January 23, 2008). "A place where college sports are a grassroots movement". SFGate.
"Conference Championships: Northern California Athletic Conference". College Football Data Warehouse.
(Jan 7, 1940). "Nevada to Quit Far Western Loop". Eugene Register-Guard.
(Jan 8, 1940). "Nevada Quits But List Grid Game With COP". Lodi News-Sentinel.

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