The KCAC is the oldest conference in the NAIA and the second-oldest in the United States, tracing its history to 1890.

[1] About 1902 the association allied with the Kansas College Athletic Conference, the first group to adopt a definite set of rules and regulations.

[2] In the 1905 season, the Coleman Company set up temporary gas-powered lighting for a night game against Cooper College (now called the Sterling Warriors).

"[5] The Los Angeles Times reported that there was much kicking and that the game was considered much safer than regular play, but that the new rule was not "conducive to the sport.

"[6] In his history of the sport of football, David M. Nelson concluded that "the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.