SENIOR COLLEGES THAT HAVE PERMANENTLY DISCONTINUED FOOTBALL SINCE 1950 Listed alphabetically below are the 161 four-year colleges which have discontinued football since 1950, together with the first year in which the sport was not played. Teams in capital letters were classified as major college the season prior to dropping the sport. Includes NCAA members and non-members as well as colleges which have closed. This list does not include those programs which dropped the sport for a period of time but have now resumed competition. Adelphi (1972) Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) (1951) Allen (1969) Nebraska Central (1952) Alliance (1950) New Bedford Textile (1951) Aquinas (1952) New England College (1973) Arkansas College (1951) New York Maritime (1989) Arnold (1953) New York Tech (1984) Atlantic Christian (1951) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (1953) Baptist Christian (1983) Niagara (1951) Benedict (1967) North Dakota-Ellendale (1972) Northeastern Illinois (1988) Bishop (1987) Northern Idaho (1951) Bluefield St. (1981) Northern Montana (1972) Boston St. (1982) Northland (1976) Bradley (1971) Northwood (Texas) (1972) Brandeis (1960) Oklahoma City (1950) Bridgeport (1975) Oswego St. (1977) Brooklyn (1991) Ozarks (1967) California-Riverside (1976) Pacific (Oregon) (1992) California-San Diego (1969) Paine (Penn) (1964) Cal Poly Pomona (1983) Panzer (1951) CAL ST.-FULLERTON (1993) Parsons (1971) Cal St.-Los Angeles (1978) Paul Quinn (1961) Cal Tech (1977) Philander Smith (1965) Cameron (1993) Plattsburgh St. (1979) Canterbury (1951) PORTLAND (1950) Cedarville (1953) Ramapo (1993) Champlain (1953) Rider (1952) City College of New York (1951) Rio Grande (1950) Clafin (1965) Rochester Tech (1978) Clarkson (1952) Rollins (1950) College of Emporia (1974) Rust (1965) College of Idaho (1978) Samuel Huston (1952) Corpus Christi (1967) San Francisco (1972) D.C. Teachers (1974) Santa Clara (1993) Daniel Baker (1951) Scranton (1961) Davis & Elkins (1962) Seton Hall (1982) DENVER (1961) Shaw (1979) DETROIT MERCY (1965) Shurtleff (1954) Detroit Tech (1951) South Carolina Trade (1967) Dillard (1965) South Dakota-Springfield (1984) Drexel (1974) Southeastern Louisiana (1986) East Texas Baptist (1951) Southern Colorado (1985) Eastern Montana (1979) Southern California College (1962) Edward Walters (1968) Southern Idaho (1951) Erskine (1952) Southwestern (Texas) (1951) Federal City (1975) St. Augustine's (1966) Fisk (1984) St. Bonaventure (1952) Florida N&I (1951) ST. LOUIS (1950) Fort Lauderdale (1982) St. Martin's (1952) Frederick (1968) St. Mary of the Plains (1992) GEORGE WASHINGTON (1967) St. Mary's (Minn) (1955 George Fox (1969) St. Michael's (New Mexico) (1954) Georgia Southwestern (1989) St. Michael's (Vermont) (1954) Hartwick (1951) St. Paul's (1988) Haverford (1972) St. Vincent (Penn) (1963) Hendrix (1961) Stetson (1957) High Point (1951) Steubenville (1950) Hiram Scott (1971) TAMPA (1975) Huntington (1950) Texas College (1961) Illinois-Chicago (1974) Texas Lutheran (1988) Jarvis Christian (1967) TEXAS-ARLINGTON (1986) King's (Penn) (1964) Tillotson (1951) LAMAR (1990) Tougaloo (1961) Leland (1960) Union (Tenn) (1953) Lemoyne-Owen (1951) United States International (1980) Lewis (1957) Vermont (1975) Lincoln (Penn) (1961) Washington (Maryland) (1951) LONG BEACH ST. (1992) Westminster (Utah) (1979) Louisiana College (1969) Whitman (1977) Louisville Municipal (1952) WICHITA ST. (1987) Lowell Textile (1951) Wiley (1969) LOYOLA (CALIF) (1952) William Carey (1956) Lubbock Christian (1983) Wisconsin Extension (1956) MARQUETTE (1961) Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1975) Maryland-Eastern Shore (1980) Wisconsin-Superior (1993) McKendree (1951) XAVIER (OHIO) (1974) Milligan (1951) Xavier (Louisiana) (1960) Milton (1982) Yankton (1984) Mississippi Industrial (1965) York (Nebraska) (1954) Morris (1965) Morris Harvey (1957) Adapted from OFFICIAL 1993 NCAA FOOTBALL, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Overland Park, Kansas, 1993. (ISBN 1-880141-44-2). - Pacific dropped its program after the completion of the 1995 season - Bethel (Tenn) (dropped in 1953) started football again sometime after 1993. They definitely played in 1997 as an NAIA independent. The WWW site would like to thank the following for the upload: Patrick L Dunn