Pacific Coast Conference charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). Rivalries between the Pacific Coast Conference schools grew beyond athletics, with animosities around educational, financial and state rivalries. The tensions between the California and Northwest schools extended to Edwin Pauley, a regent of the University of California, disliking the member universities in the Pacific Northwest enough to advocate that the California institutions leave the Pacific Coast Conference to form a "California Conference." The PCC had a history of being very strict with
Pacific, Washington from the Mud Mountain Dam caused even greater flooding, inundating more than a hundred homes. Pacific is located at (47.263272, -122.247831). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. The lower White River, also known as the Stuck River, runs through the east side of Pacific, between Auburn, Washington and Sumner, Washington. As of the census of 2010, there were 6,606 people, 2,269 households, and 1,605 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 2,422 housing units at an average density of