NATIONALLY PROMINENT TEAMS THAT PERMANENTLY DROPPED FOOTBALL Listed alphabetically below are the all-time records of teams formerly classified as major college that permanently discontinued football. Also included are those those teams that, retroactively, are considered to have been major college (before the advent of official classification in 1937) by virtue of their schedules (i.e., at least half of their games versus other major-college opponents). All schools listed were classified as major college, or considered to have been, for a minimum of ten consecutive seasons. ========================================================================= INCLUSIVE TEAM SEASONS YEARS WON LOST TIED ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAL ST.-FULLERTON 1970-1992 23 107 150 3 CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL 1893-1917 25 167 88 13 CENTENARY 1894-1947 36 148 100 21 CHICAGO 1892-1939*1 48 261 149 30 CREIGHTON 1900-1942 43 183 139 27 DENVER 1885-1960 73 273 262 40 DETROIT MERCY 1896-1964 64 305 200 25 GEORGE WASHINGTON 1890-1966 58 209 240 34 GONZAGA 1892-1941 39 130 99 20 HASKELL INSTITUTE 1896-1938*2 43 199 166 18 LAMAR 1951-1989 39 171 225 9 LONG BEACH ST. 1955-1991 37 199 183 4 MANHATTAN 1923-1942 20 77 75 11 MARQUETTE 1892-1960 68 273 220 38 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 1873-1952 66 201 231 32 PACIFIC 1919-1995 77 345 395 24 SAN FRANCISCO 1924-1951; 1959-1971*3 38 133 169 20 ST. LOUIS 1899-1949 49 235 179 33 TEXAS-ARLINGTON 1959-1985 27 129 150 2 WICHITA ST. 1897-1986 89 375 402 47 XAVIER (OHIO) 1900-1973*4 61 302 223 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *1 Chicago started again as a Division III team in 1968. *2 Haskell Institute has played in the NAIA since 1999. *3 Discontinued football during 1952 after having been classified as major college. Resumed at the Division II level during 1959-71, when it was discontinued again. *4 Should not be confused with St. Xavier (IL), an NAIA team. ======================================================================== SOURCE: OFFICIAL 1993 NCAA FOOTBALL, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Overland Park, Kansas, 1993. (ISBN 1-880141-44-2) This WWW site would like to thank the following for their upload: Patrick L Dunn