Washington played its first 26 seasons of college football from 1889 to 1915 as an independent . In 1916 , Washington became one of the four charter members of the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ) , which later evolved into the modern day Pac-12 Conference after going through several iterations : the PCC ( 1916 – 1958 ) , Athletic Association of Western Universities ( 1959 – 1967 ) , Pacific-8 ( 1968 – 1977 ) , Pacific-10 ( 1978 – 2010 ) , and Pac-12 ( 2011 – present ) . The Pac-12 claims the history of each of these preceding conferences as its own . Washington and California are the only founding and continuous members in each of these successive conferences
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