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Post by Commissioner on Nov 16, 2018 9:24:22 GMT -5
While looking for info on when the Titans began being called the Titans, I found this little tidbit from the Varsity News on February 22, 1922:
I would guess the "Michigan Aggies" are now Michigan State. An earlier article, on February 1, had noted that Creighton was also in the discussions. That article also said that the Titans had declined an invitation to join an eastern conference with Georgetown, Fordham, Holy Cross, and Boston College.
The Titans were definitely interested, it appears, in a conference affiliation, but apparently, nothing came of it in the end.
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Post by Commissioner on May 16, 2020 14:35:20 GMT -5
From the Varsity News, November 8, 1955:
"Hinting at the possibility of dropping ties with Missouri Valley Conference, the Very Rev. Celestin J. Steiner, S.J., yesterday said he had been working on a proposed conference including schools like Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Boston College, Marquette and Cincinnati."
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Post by titantarheel on May 16, 2020 23:04:30 GMT -5
Good grief, the company we used to keep!!
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Post by Commissioner on Mar 25, 2023 8:56:05 GMT -5
In the winter of 1957, after the Titans had announced plans to withdraw from the MVC at the end of that academic year, U of D Publicity Director Fred Delano--note the Titans did not have an athletic director at the time, part of a poorly thought out reorganization of athletics by President Celestine Steiner--met in Oklahoma City with representatives of Marquette, DePaul, Creighton, Memphis State, and Oklahoma City to discuss forming a new basketball-only conference. Two plans were discussed, one to form a large conference with East and West divisions (with the Mississippi River as the dividing line), and another to form two conferences, one in the plains states and one based in the midwest. The attendees all preferred the latter plan. According to Delano, Marquette, DePaul and Detroit tentatively agreed to form a new midwest conference, and DePaul agreed to host a meeting in April to solidify plans. Louisville (which had not been present in Oklahoma City) had been contacted and was "very much interested." St. Louis, which was being pressured by the MVC to field a football team, Dayton, Loyola, and Notre Dame were discussed as other possible members. Delano said there was a "strong possibility" that the plan would succeed and the new conference would launch in 1958-59.
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