All-time members
21
1885-1957
NCAA independent schools prior to 1937
The NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 (NISPT1) is a historical FBS football conference tracked from 1885-1957. 21 programs appear in the membership history, with 1 in the latest snapshot. 0 national title seasons and 0 Heisman-winning seasons come from member programs.
Current/final members
1
Final tracked snapshot
National title seasons
0
Won by member programs while in the league
Heisman winners
0
Heisman-winning seasons from member programs
Current teams
1
Final tracked membership snapshot
Latest champion
No champion available
No champion is available yet
Most conference titles
Unavailable
No official title leader is available yet
Newest members
1898
Temple
Championship format
Standings
1909: Regular-season standings
Division status
No divisions
No divisions inferred; champion derived from conference standings.
Overview
Fast historical context for this conference.
The NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 (NISPT1) is a historical FBS football conference tracked from 1885-1957. 21 programs appear in the membership history, with 1 in the latest snapshot. 0 national title seasons and 0 Heisman-winning seasons come from member programs.
Complete latest member list
NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 teams in the latest CFBTrack snapshot: Temple.
Major eras
- 1885-1887: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1888-1893: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 1894: 3-3 members, regular-season title era
- 1895: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Current/final status
Historical league ending in 1957.
Latest champion: No champion available
Quick facts
- Founded / tracked from
- 1885
- Last tracked season
- 1957
- Standings seasons
- 4
- Title-game seasons
- 0
- Churn score
- 46
Members
All-time membership and tenure overview.
| Team | First season | Last season | Seasons | Status | Titles in conference | Heismans in conference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple | 1898 | 1957 | 60 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| UConn | 1896 | 1937 | 42 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Duke | 1888 | 1927 | 40 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Notre Dame | 1905 | 1936 | 32 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Central Michigan | 1896 | 1926 | 31 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Marshall | 1895 | 1924 | 30 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Nevada | 1896 | 1924 | 29 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Cincinnati | 1885 | 1910 | 26 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Toledo | 1899 | 1920 | 22 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Texas State | 1904 | 1924 | 21 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| UTEP | 1914 | 1934 | 21 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| TCU | 1896 | 1922 | 20 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Western Kentucky | 1913 | 1945 | 18 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Memphis | 1912 | 1927 | 16 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Texas A&M | 1894 | 1902 | 9 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Tulsa | 1905 | 1913 | 9 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | 1905 | 1912 | 8 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Texas Tech | 1925 | 1931 | 7 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| East Carolina | 1932 | 1936 | 5 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Clemson | 1896 | 1898 | 3 | Former | 0 | 0 |
| Louisville | 1912 | 1913 | 2 | Former | 0 | 0 |
Membership timeline
Membership events feed
- 1958: Temple departed
- 1946: Western Kentucky departed
- 1942: Western Kentucky joined
- 1938: UConn departed
- 1937: East Carolina departed
- 1937: Notre Dame departed
- 1935: UTEP departed
- 1932: Texas Tech departed
- 1932: East Carolina joined
- 1928: Duke departed
- 1928: Memphis departed
- 1927: Central Michigan departed
- 1927: Western Kentucky departed
- 1925: Marshall departed
- 1925: Nevada departed
- 1925: Texas State departed
- 1925: Texas Tech joined
- 1923: TCU departed
Standings
Season-aware conference standings, champion context, and tiebreak summary.
View
1957 alignment is available, but no completed conference standings are available yet. Showing latest usable standings: 1909.
View 1957 alignment1909 standings
InferredDerived from 1 completed conference game.
Member count
13
No divisions inferred; champion derived from conference standings.
Champion
Texas
Champion inferred from best conference record.
How this season was decided
Standings are ordered from game results, but the dataset does not store the official conference tiebreak procedure for this season.
- Conference win percentage
- Conference wins
- Conference losses
- Alphabetical fallback
Official tiebreak path not available in dataset.
| Rank | Team | Conference | Win % | Overall | PF | PA | +/- | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Champion | 1-0 | 100.0 | 4-3-1 | 24 | 0 | 24 | — |
| 2 | Central Michigan | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 3 | Cincinnati | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 4 | Duke | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 5 | Marshall | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 6 | Nevada | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 7 | Notre Dame | 0-0 | 0.0 | 2-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 8 | Temple | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 9 | Texas State | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 10 | Toledo | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 11 | Tulsa | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 12 | UConn | 0-0 | 0.0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 13 | TCU | 0-1 | 0.0 | 5-2-1 | 0 | 24 | -24 | — |
Champions
Conference title history by season.
| Season | Champion | Co-champion | Qualifiers | Title game | Notes |
|---|
Champion leaders
- No official title leaders are available yet.
Era breakdown
- 1885-1887: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1888-1893: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 1894: 3-3 members, regular-season title era
- 1895: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
- 1896-1897: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
- 1898-1902: 10-10 members, regular-season title era
- 1903: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
- 1904: 10-10 members, regular-season title era
- 1905-1906: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
- 1907: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
- 1908-1909: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
- 1910: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
- 1911: 12-12 members, regular-season title era
- 1912-1913: 14-14 members, regular-season title era
- 1914-1922: 12-12 members, regular-season title era
- 1923-1924: 11-11 members, regular-season title era
- 1925-1926: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
- 1927: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
- 1928-1934: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
- 1935-1936: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
- 1937: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 1938-1941: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
- 1942-1945: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
- 1946-1957: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Structure & Tiebreakers
Era groupings and confidence-based rules context.
1885-1887
Partial1885-1887: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1888: Duke joined
- 1885: Cincinnati joined
1888-1893
Partial1888-1893: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1894: Texas A&M joined
- 1888: Duke joined
1894-1894
Partial1894: 3-3 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1895: Marshall joined
- 1894: Texas A&M joined
1895-1895
Partial1895: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1896: Central Michigan joined
- 1896: Clemson joined
- 1896: Nevada joined
- 1896: TCU joined
1896-1897
Partial1896-1897: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1898: Temple joined
- 1896: Central Michigan joined
- 1896: Clemson joined
- 1896: Nevada joined
1898-1902
Partial1898-1902: 10-10 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1903: Texas A&M departed
- 1899: Clemson departed
- 1899: Toledo joined
- 1898: Temple joined
1903-1903
Partial1903: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1904: Texas State joined
- 1903: Texas A&M departed
1904-1904
Partial1904: 10-10 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1905: Notre Dame joined
- 1905: Texas joined
- 1905: Tulsa joined
- 1904: Texas State joined
1905-1906
Partial1905-1906: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1905: Notre Dame joined
- 1905: Texas joined
- 1905: Tulsa joined
1907-1907
Partial1907: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
1908-1909
Partial1908-1909: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
1910-1910
Partial1910: 13-13 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1911: Cincinnati departed
1911-1911
Partial1911: 12-12 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1912: Louisville joined
- 1912: Memphis joined
- 1911: Cincinnati departed
1912-1913
Partial1912-1913: 14-14 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1914: Louisville departed
- 1914: TCU departed
- 1914: Tulsa departed
- 1914: UTEP joined
1914-1922
Partial1914-1922: 12-12 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1923: TCU departed
- 1921: Toledo departed
- 1921: TCU joined
- 1914: Louisville departed
1923-1924
Partial1923-1924: 11-11 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1925: Marshall departed
- 1925: Nevada departed
- 1925: Texas State departed
- 1925: Texas Tech joined
1925-1926
Partial1925-1926: 9-9 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1927: Central Michigan departed
- 1927: Western Kentucky departed
- 1925: Marshall departed
- 1925: Nevada departed
1927-1927
Partial1927: 7-7 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1928: Duke departed
- 1928: Memphis departed
- 1927: Central Michigan departed
- 1927: Western Kentucky departed
1928-1934
Partial1928-1934: 5-5 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1935: UTEP departed
- 1932: Texas Tech departed
- 1932: East Carolina joined
- 1928: Duke departed
1935-1936
Partial1935-1936: 4-4 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1937: East Carolina departed
- 1937: Notre Dame departed
- 1935: UTEP departed
1937-1937
Partial1937: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1938: UConn departed
- 1937: East Carolina departed
- 1937: Notre Dame departed
1938-1941
Partial1938-1941: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1942: Western Kentucky joined
- 1938: UConn departed
1942-1945
Partial1942-1945: 2-2 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1946: Western Kentucky departed
- 1942: Western Kentucky joined
1946-1957
Partial1946-1957: 1-1 members, regular-season title era
Champion inferred from best conference record
- 1958: Temple departed
- 1946: Western Kentucky departed
Division history
Historical division assignments are not stored in the current dataset.
Selected season tiebreak summary
Standings are ordered from game results, but the dataset does not store the official conference tiebreak procedure for this season.
- Conference win percentage
- Conference wins
- Conference losses
- Alphabetical fallback
Official tiebreak path not available in dataset.
Realignment
Membership changes and before/after conference snapshots.
Join events
23
Derived from membership starts
Departure events
23
Derived after final membership season
Newest member
East Carolina
Joined in 1932
Longest member
Temple
60 seasons
Shared members
Joined since start
- Temple
Departed since start
- Cincinnati
Realignment timeline
- 1958: Temple departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1957 season.
- 1946: Western Kentucky departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1945 season.
- 1942: Western Kentucky joined NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 for the 1942 season.
- 1938: UConn departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1937 season.
- 1937: East Carolina departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1936 season.
- 1937: Notre Dame departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1936 season.
- 1935: UTEP departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1934 season.
- 1932: Texas Tech departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1931 season.
- 1932: East Carolina joined NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 for the 1932 season.
- 1928: Duke departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1927 season.
- 1928: Memphis departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1927 season.
- 1927: Central Michigan departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1926 season.
- 1927: Western Kentucky departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1926 season.
- 1925: Marshall departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1924 season.
- 1925: Nevada departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1924 season.
- 1925: Texas State departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1924 season.
- 1925: Texas Tech joined NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 for the 1925 season.
- 1923: TCU departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1922 season.
- 1921: Toledo departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1920 season.
- 1921: TCU joined NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 for the 1921 season.
- 1914: Louisville departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1913 season.
- 1914: TCU departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1913 season.
- 1914: Tulsa departed NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 after the 1913 season.
- 1914: UTEP joined NCAA independent schools prior to 1937 for the 1914 season.
Records
Conference-level leaderboards and contribution summaries.
Most conference titles
N/A
No title leader inferred yet.
Longest membership tenure
Temple
60 tracked seasons
Newest member
East Carolina
First joined in 1932
Most reshaped metric
46
23 joins and 23 departures tracked.
Team contribution leaderboard
In-conference totals only count seasons when the program was a member. All-time totals count the full program history.
| Team | Conference titles | National title seasons (in conference) | National title seasons (all-time) | Heismans (in conference) | Heismans (all-time) | Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 32 |
| Texas | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Clemson | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Texas A&M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| TCU | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Louisville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Central Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Cincinnati | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| East Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Marshall | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Memphis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Nevada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Temple | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| Texas State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Texas Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Toledo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Tulsa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| UConn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| UTEP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Western Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
Data Sources
How CFBTrack treats membership, standings, champions, and future-season caveats.
Membership is tracked from curated CFBTrack conference tables. Standings and champions may be official, curated, or inferred depending on season. Future seasons are provisional until games are played and source records settle.
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