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| name = Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association |
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| name = Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association |
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| founded = April 4, 1891<ref name="TDL1891"/> |
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| founded = April 4, 1891<ref name="TDL1891"/> |
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| dissolved = {{circa}} 1899<ref name="SeattleTimes1899"/> |
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| image = WWIAA Track and Field Meet Program 1904.jpg |
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| caption = Program for the 1904 WWIAA Track and Field meet in Tacoma |
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The '''Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association''' was an early ] governing competition between member institutions in the ] on the ].<ref name="TDL1891"/><ref name="HarpersWeekly1898"/> |
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The '''Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association''' ('''WWIAA''') was an early ] governing competition between member institutions in ] on the ].<ref name="TDL1891"/><ref name="HarpersWeekly1898"/> |
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| ] || rowspan=3 | March 1893<ref name="SeattlePI1893">{{cite news |date=March 13, 1893 |title=State University Athletics — College Men Make a Good Showing, but Are Badly Handicapped |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-intelligencer-1893-uw-washingto/160141949/ |work=] |page=2 |quote=...the coming field day of the Intercollegiate Association The present members of the association are the state university, Tacoma academy, Washington college, of Tacoma; Puget Sound university, of Tacoma, and Whitworth college, of Sumner. Applications for membership have been received from Seattle university, Chehalis college and Vashon college, and they will ail probably be admitted.}}</ref><ref name="TDN1893">{{cite news |date=March 25, 1893 |title=College Athletes — Intercollegiate Association in Convention at Tacoma Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-western-washington-inte/162499022/ |work=] |volume=XXI |number=1 |page=7 |quote=Delegates were present from the State University of Washington, Puget Sound University, Whitworth College, of Sumner; Vashon University, of Quartermaster; Olympia Collegiate Institute, Seattle University and Tacoma Academy.}}</ref> || |
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<ref name="TDL1891">{{cite news |date=April 5, 1891 |title=Collegiates Organize — The Delegates Form an Athletic Association |url= |work=] |quote=By its provisions the new association will be known as the Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, the main objects of which will be the holding of an annual field day, with the general purpose of encouraging athletics.}}</ref> |
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<ref name="TDL1891">{{cite news |date=April 5, 1891 |title=Collegiates Organize — The Delegates Form an Athletic Association |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tacoma-daily-ledger-western-washingt/162230434/ |work=] |quote=By its provisions the new association will be known as the Western Washington Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, the main objects of which will be the holding of an annual field day, with the general purpose of encouraging athletics.}}</ref> |
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<ref name="SeattlePI1892">{{cite news |date=April 3, 1892 |title=Inter-Collegiate Athletics — Field Day to be Held in Seattle the Middle of Next Month |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-intelligencer-wwiaa-track-and-f/162510868/ |work=] |volume=XXI |number=140 |page=3 |quote=The institutions holding membership in the association were represented as follows: Washington college, Tacoma; Puget Sound university, Tacoma; Tacoma academy; State university, Seattle. Whitworth college, of Sumner, holds membership but was not represented.}}</ref> |
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<ref name="HarpersWeekly1898">{{cite magazine |last=Whitney |first=Caspar |author-link=Caspar Whitney |title=Athletic Salvation for the Pacific Northwest |magazine=Harper's Weekly |date=January 29, 1898 |volume=XLII |number=2145 |pages=117–118 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1898-01-29_42_2145/page/117/mode/1up |access-date=January 4, 2025 |quote=The six Washington colleges—], ], ], ], ], and ]—are organized into the Western Washington Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, which annually holds a series of contests in football, baseball, and track athletics.}}</ref> |
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<ref name="HarpersWeekly1898">{{cite magazine |last=Whitney |first=Caspar |author-link=Caspar Whitney |title=Athletic Salvation for the Pacific Northwest |magazine=Harper's Weekly |date=January 29, 1898 |volume=XLII |number=2145 |pages=117–118 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1898-01-29_42_2145/page/117/mode/1up |access-date=January 4, 2025 |quote=The six Washington colleges—], ], ], ], ], and ]—are organized into the Western Washington Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, which annually holds a series of contests in football, baseball, and track athletics.}}</ref> |
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<ref name="SeattleTimes1899">{{cite news |date=May 14, 1899 |title=Student Athletes — Successful Meet of the Washington University Association |work=] |page=8 |quote=Lovers of athletic sports will be sorry to learn that there is to be no intercollegiate field meet this year. The Western Washington Intercollegiate Athletic Association has fallen to pieces.}}</ref> |
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Program for the 1904 WWIAA Track and Field meet in Tacoma