[1] These public schools are now known as the Universities of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, respectively.

[3] Northeastern University, a private university, joined the conference in December 1936;[4] by that time, Massachusetts State College (the name that Massachusetts Agricultural College adopted in 1931) was no longer a member of the conference.

When Northeastern left the conference in 1945,[citation needed] the four remaining members plus New England's two other major public land-grant institutions, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Vermont, formed the Yankee Conference under a new charter,[5] officially beginning play in 1947.

Membership changes in rival conference the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) would give that conference six football-playing members starting in 2005-06, all of which had football in the A-10.

Eventually, it was agreed that the A-10 would hand off management of its entire football conference to the CAA.