Southern Conference
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| Established | 1921 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I FCS |
| Members | 10 |
| Sports fielded | 20 (men's: 11; women's: 9) |
| Region | Southeast |
| Headquarters | Spartanburg, South Carolina |
| Commissioner | John Iamarino (since 2006) |
| Website | www |
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| Wallace Wade | 1951–1960 |
| Lloyd Jordon | 1960–1973 |
| Ken Germann | 1974–1986 |
| Dave Hart | 1986–1991 |
| Wright Waters | 1991–1998 |
| Alfred B. White | 1998–2001 |
| Danny Morrison | 2001–2005 |
| John Iamarino | 2006–present |
The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA). Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
The Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college athletic conference in the United States, and either the third- or fourth-oldest in continuous operation, depending on definitions. Among conferences currently in operation, the Big Ten (1896) and Missouri Valley (1907) are indisputably older. The Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959, but claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, founded in 1915, as its own. The Southwest Conference (SWC) was founded in 1914, but ceased operation in 1996 once the Big 12 Conference began play; the Big 12 does not claim the history of the SWC. The SoCon was the first conference to use the three-point field goal in basketball in a November 29, 1980 game at Western Carolina against Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where Ronnie Carr shot the historic shot from 22 feet (6.7 m) away and the Catamounts won 77-70.
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