Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association

The Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association (OIFA) was the pioneer governing committee which coordinated games of football between various colleges in the American state of Oregon. The committee agreed upon common rules of play, scheduled games, and provided a framework for an annual champion in the years 1894 and 1895.

Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association
Established1894
Dissolved1895
Members5
Sports fielded

Organizational history

1894 season

There were five teams participating in the OIFA in 1894.

The teams finished the 1894 season with the following records:

Team Wins Losses Ties Source
Portland University 4 0 0 [1]
Oregon Agricultural College 3 1 0 [1]
Pacific University 1 2 1 [1]
University of Oregon 1 2 1 [1]
Oregon Normal School 0 4 0 [1]

1895 season

A meeting of college representatives was held in Salem on Saturday, October 5, 1895 to organize a schedule for the coming year.[2] Attending were representatives of Portland University, Oregon Agricultural College, the University of Oregon, Pacific University, and new participant Willamette University.[2] The 1894 season marked the first year of organized football for Willamette and the 1895 campaign would be their second. Oregon Normal School (today's Western Oregon State College) did not participate.

President E. E. Washburne of Portland University was selected as president of the conference by virtue of his school having won the championship in 1894.[2] The conference representatives agreed to accept the Harvard–Pennsylvania–Cornell rules for the 1895–96 season[3] and adopted the Spalding No. J football as the official ball of the league.[2]

The teams finished the 1895 season with the following overall records:

Team Wins Losses Ties Source
University of Oregon 4 0 0
Pacific University
Portland University
Willamette University 1 4 1
Oregon Agricultural College 0 2 1

Footnotes
  1. "Football," Daily Eugene Guard, vol. 8, no. 21 (Jan. 1, 1895), p. 1, quoting the Corvallis Gazette.
  2. "Pig-Skin Punchers," Corvallis Times, vol. 8, no. 34 (Oct. 9, 1895), p. 3.
  3. The Harvard–Pennsylvania–Cornell rules were a specific set of amendments to the basic rules published in Spalding's Official Football Guide for 1895, by Walter Camp. See: "The Official Football Rules," Harvard Crimson, Sept. 23, 1895.
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