Pioneer Football League - Definition and Overview

The Pioneer Football League is a College Athletic Conference which operates literally from coast to coast in the United States; it has member schools ranging from North Carolina and Florida in the east to California in the west. It participates in the NCAA's Division I-AA as a football-only conference. Unlike most other Division I-AA conferences, the Pioneer League consists of institutions which choose not to award athletic scholarships ("grants-in-aid") to football players; these institutions are sometimes (somewhat unofficially) referred to as "I-AAA" schools.

There are nine member schools:

• Austin Peay State University
• Butler University
• Davidson College
• University of Dayton
• Drake University
• Jacksonville University
• Morehead State University
• University of San Diego
• Valparaiso University

External link

• Official Internet home of the Pioneer Football League (http://www.pioneer-football.org/)