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The '''Pacific Coast Conference''' ('''PCC''') was a collegiate [[college athletic conference]] in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the [[Pac-12 Conference]] 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 for many years, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due to a major crisis and scandal.

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bar:1 color:Full from:12/02/1915 till:195908/02/2024 text:[[University of California, Berkeley|California]] (1915–19591915–2024)

bar:2 color:Full from:12/02/1915 till:195908/02/2024 text:[[University of Washington|Washington]] (1915–19591915–2024)

bar:3 color:Full from:12/02/1915 till:06/30/1959 text:[[University of Oregon|Oregon]] (1915–1959, 1964–2024)

bar:4 color:Full from:12/02/1915 till:06/30/1959 text:[[Oregon State University|Oregon State]] (1915–1959, 1964–present)

bar:5 color:FullOtherC1 from:191712/02/1915 till:195906/30/1917 text:[[Washington State University|Washington State]] (1917–1959)Ind.

bar:6 color:FullOtherC1 from:191812/02/1915 till:195906/30/1918 text:[[Stanford University|Stanford]] (1918–1959)Ind.

bar:7 color:FullOtherC1 from:192212/02/1915 till:192406/30/1922 text:[[University of Southern California|USC]] (1922–1923, 1925–1959)Indep.

bar:7 color:Full from:192507/01/1922 till:195908/02/2024 text:[[University of Southern California|USC]] (1922–2024)

bar:8 color:FullOtherC1 from:192212/02/1915 till:195906/30/1922 text:[[University of Idaho|Idaho]] (1922–1959)Indep.

bar:9 color:FullOtherC1 from:192412/02/1915 till:195006/30/1924 text:[[University of Montana|Montana]] (1924–1950)Independent

bar:10 color:FullOtherC1 from:192812/02/1915 till:195906/30/1919 text:[[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] (1928–1959)Indep.

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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,<ref name=ccnathbos>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c29WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H-QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6900%2C1509266 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |title=Coast colleges name Atherton boss |date=January 6, 1940 |page=10}}</ref> and served until his death four years later,<ref name=ecfbczr>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BkslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2438%2C4625658 |newspaper=Berkeley Daily Gazette |agency=United Press |title=Edwin Atherton, Coast football czar, dies |date=September 1, 1944 |page=11 }}</ref> He was succeeded by his assistant, Victor O. Schmidt.<ref name=csappnewcom>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cO8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4382%2C4416133 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |title=Coast schools appoint new commissioner |date=September 2, 1944 |page=2, part 2 |access-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-date=November 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118203810/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cO8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4382%2C4416133 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The scandal first broke at Washington, when in January 1956, several discontented players staged a mutiny against their football coach, [[John Cherberg]]. After the coach was fired, the PCC followed up on charges of a slush fund. The PCC found evidence of the prohibited activities of the Greater Washington Advertising Fund run by Roscoe C. "Torchy" Torrance, and in May imposed sanctions.<ref name="Thelin1996">{{cite book|author=John R. Thelin|authorlink=John R. Thelin|title=Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJUIUzD4joAC&pg=RA1-PA1957|date=18 November 1996|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0391-5|pages=1–}}</ref>

Oregon State College president August [[Leroy Strand]] wrote, "The reasons for California and UCLA dropping out are as different as night and day... the significance of the whole affair was the union of Berkeley and UCLA... admissions and scholarship had nothing to do with the withdrawals . . . the marriage of this desire on the part of Berkeley with the known ambitions and necessities of its sister institution has produced a bastard that has the bardbark of a purebred but the innards and hair of a mongrel."

The PCC was falling apart, leading to the decision to dissolve after the 1958-591958–59 season.

The PCC scandal was one of several problems during the chancellorship of [[Raymond B. Allen]] at UCLA that caused him to fall out of favor with the [[Regents of the University of California]]. Allen was widely expected to become the next UC President, but instead, in October 1957, UC Berkeley Chancellor [[Clark Kerr]] was the Regents' unanimous choice to succeed Sproul.<ref name="ClarkKerr1">{{cite book|last1=Kerr|first1=Clark|title=The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1|date=2001|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520223677|pages=154-155154–155|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA154|accessdateaccess-date=16 February 2019}}</ref>

===New affiliations=conference (AAWU)==

Soon after the PCC was dissolved, five of its nine members (California, Washington, UCLA, Southern California, and Stanford) created the [[Pac-12 Conference#AAWU (Big Five and Big Six)|Athletic Association of Western Universities]] (AAWU) for the [[1959 college football season#Conference and program changes|1959 season]]. While the AAWU did not negotiate an agreement with the [[Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association]] to have a standing contractual invitation to the [[Rose Bowl Game]] until the [[1961 Rose Bowl|following year]], the Tournament of Roses did choose to invite the AAWU's inaugural regular season champion to the first [[1960 Rose Bowl|post-PCC Rose Bowl]].

After initially being blocked from admission, three of the four remaining schools would eventually joinjoined ([[Washington State University|Washington State]] in [[1962 college football season#Conference and program changes|1962]], [[University of Oregon|Oregon]] and [[Oregon State University|Oregon State]] in [[1964 college football season#Conference and program changes|1964]]), but members were not required to play other members. Tensions were high between UCLA and Stanford, as Stanford had voted for UCLA's expulsion from the PCC.

[[University of Idaho|Idaho]] was not involved in the scandals but had become noncompetitive in the PCC. Unlike Washington State, Oregon, and Oregon State, Idaho did not pursue AAWU admission, and competed as an independent before becoming a charter member of the [[Big Sky Conference]] in [[1963 college football season#Conference and program changes|1963]]1962. Idaho retains no strong connections to its PCC past, other than a continuing [[Battle of the Palouse|rivalry with neighboring Washington State]]; the two [[Land-grant university|land grant]] campuses are just eight miles (13&nbsp;km) apart in the [[Palouse]] region.

The AAWU eventually strengthened its bonds and added members, renaming itself the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) in [[1968 college football season#Conference and program changes|1968]]. By 1971, most Pac-8 schools played round-robin conference football schedules, and the two Oregon schools were again playing USC and UCLA on a regular basis. The conference added [[Western Athletic Conference|WAC]] powers [[University of Arizona|Arizona]] and [[Arizona State University|Arizona State]] in [[1978 NCAA Division I-A football season|1978]] and became the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10). On [[2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment#Pac-10|July 1, 2011]], the conference added [[University of Colorado Boulder|Colorado]] from the [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] and [[University of Utah|Utah]] from the [[Mountain West Conference|Mountain West]] (also a former WAC member) and became the [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-12]]. The Pac-12 claims the PCC's history as its own, though it operates under a separate charter.

The official record book of conference champions was compiled by the then acting commissioner Bernie Hammerbeck in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rYkRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0eIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5293%2C211203|title=When the Pacific Coast Conference was dissolved|date=2 March 1960|publisher=Eugene Register-Guard|accessdateaccess-date=13 October 2013}}</ref>

| align=left|[[1919 Washington Huskies football team|Washington]] <small>(2)</small> || 2 || 1 || 0 || 33 || 31 || 5 || 1 || 0

| [[1956 NCAA University Divisioncollege football season|1956]] || align=left|[[1956 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]] <small>(2)</small> || 6 || 1 || 1 || 152 || 104 || 7 || 3 || 1

| rowspan=2|[[1957 NCAA University Divisioncollege football season|1957]] || align=left|[[1957 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]] <small>(3)</small> || 6 || 2 || 0 || 147 || 110 || 8 || 2 || 0

| [[1958 NCAA University Divisioncollege football season|1958]] || align=left|[[1958 California Golden Bears football team|California]] <small>(12)</small> || 6 || 1 || 0 || 127 || 85 || 7 || 4 || 0

''*denotes Pacific Coast Conference playoff champion''<br>

''**California won the CIBA Division 1 and USC won CIBA Division 2. California won the whole division title by beating USC in the CIBA playoff''

[[Category:Sports organizationsleagues established in 1915]]

[[Category:OrganizationsSports leagues disestablished in 1959]]