[2] The latter two defected from the Virginia Conference over a freshman eligibility rule.
[3] By 1935, both Hampden–Sydney and Randolph–Macon were dissatisfied and considered returning to the Virginia Conference.
[3] At that time, however, that league had dwindled to only four members, and the following year disbanded after two left for the Southern Conference.
[4] In January 1937, Hampden–Sydney and Randolph–Macon were invited to join a potential new conference centered upon the state of Virginia and the Carolinas alongside Catawba, Lenoir-Rhyne, Elon, Presbyterian, Wofford, Erskine, Newberry, and Emory and Henry, but declined admission.
[1] The following colleges held membership in the Chesapeake Conference: