Division Change History

1960 football schedule dsiplaying the Division I competition the school used to play. Also, showing the fact that Trinity lacked their own home football stadium. 

Article about the coaching change during the 1962 season. Highlights the fact that Trinity was able to provide athletic scholarships which they are now incapable of doing. 

As mentioned in the introduction the NCAA changed their Division Culture in 1973 to include Divisions I, II, and III. Trinity at that time had changed almost all of their sports over to the Division III area except for tennis and baseball, which later changed over in the 1980s and 1990s. According to current Athletic Directory Bob King, the university at that pivotal time decided to switch for 3 main reasons. The first reason was money. The new guidelines created by the NCAA required a lot more money than Trinity could possibly come up with, and with that new fee they would also not be able to keep all of the athletes they had on scholarship. The second reason had to do with the competition in Intercollegiate Sports rising drastically. Trinity, with its small population, did not have enough following to bring in the best athletes in the country to compete at a fair enough level. Lastly, they had to switch divisions because they wanted to change the schools image to being a successful, challenging, and diverse liberal arts university. This was a lot different than the image that was already set in place byt the scholarship athletes, who on average spent more time practicing and focusing on sport than the education. This new image was the brain child of Predident Duncan Wimpress and Athletic Director Warren Woodson in 1971 and was carried on later by the new Athletic Director Pete Murphy in 1974.