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A History of Canadian University Football
By Robert E. Watkins, B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. - revised May 2006

The Atlantic Universities Football Conference (AUFC) 1974 to the Present

1974 - still another association and conference name change--the AIAA was now called the Atlantic Universities Athletic Association with the football conference becoming the AUAA football conference
Over the years the AUAA football conference has been more popularly referred to as the Atlantic Universities Football Conference (AUFC)
As with university football in Central Canada, the decade of the 1970s, for economic, competitive and/or philosophic reasons, took its toll on football programs in the Atlantic provinces:
- 1976 - Dalhousie folded its football program following the 1976 season;
- 1979 - UPEI folded its program following the 1979 season;
- 1980 - UNB folded its program following the 1980 season.
With but one exception since 1980 the current alignment of teams has been stable:
- AUFC: Acadia, Mount Allison, SMU and StFX
1990 - the University College of Cape Breton (UCCB) initiated a football program which played for that one season only
Late 1999 - the governing body of university athletics in the Atlantic region (the AUAA) once again changed its name, this time to Atlantic University Sport (AUS)
2002 - the AUFC and the Quebec Interuniversity Football Conference (QIFC) agreed to begin interlocking play for the 2002 and 2003 seasons
2004 - the QIFC (now the QUFL) and the AUFC agreed to extend the agreement covering interlocking play between member teams of the two conferences
2006 - the interlocking schedule between the AUFC and the QUFL was renewed for a third time