Pacific Coast Conference
| Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) |
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|---|---|
| Established | December 2, 1915 |
| Dissolved | June 30, 1959 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Members | 9 (final), 10 (total) |
| Region |
Pacific Coast, Mountain States |
| Locations | |
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The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12) claims the PCC's history as part of its own, with eight of the ten PCC members (including all four original PCC charter members) now in the Pac-12, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due to a major crisis and scandal. The name Pacific Coast Conference is now used by a San Diego area community college league established in 1982.
Established on December 2, 1915, its four charter members were the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University).
Full members
Rivalries between the Pacific Coast Conference schools grew beyond athletics, with animosities around educational, financial and state rivalries. The tensions between the California and Northwest schools extended to Edwin Pauley, a regent of the University of California, disliking the member universities in the Pacific Northwest enough to advocate that the California institutions leave the Pacific Coast Conference to form a "California Conference." Among other complaints, he disdained the quality of education in the Oregon schools. Pauley felt that University of California campuses deserved to play against colleges with comparably high academic standards.
The PCC had a history of being very strict with regards to its standards; it suspended the University of Southern California from the conference in 1924, performed a critical self-study in 1932, and a voluminous two-million-word report was compiled by Edwin Atherton in 1939. The PCC had a paid commissioner, an elaborate constitution, a formal code of conduct, and a system for reporting student-athlete eligibility. Following the submission of his report, Atherton was promptly hired as commissioner in 1940, and served until his death four years later, He was succeeded by his assistant, Victor O. Schmidt.
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