You are quoting Wikipedia, I have actually been in the special archives (where you have to wear the cotton gloves) and pretty sure your Wiki page is wrong.

Dr Dudley was from KY and his people were known. He attended Cincinnati (when it was a semi private school, and not the state school it is now). He was employed at Vanderbilt where he was actively involved in athletics there. He not only was the founder of the SIAA (It listed something in Virginia, but that Wiki reference is the first I have ever heard about UVA). He was also part of the founding of the NCAA when issues we are facing again threatened college athletics enough that the POTUS and Congress were on the warpath.

While it has been at least a decade and possibly two (and I am old) my memory had Texas A&M in those old documents.

Wiki can be changed and links can be lost quicker than hard documents saved on paper from the actual era. I know this is hard for younger people to grasp but it is true. I do know for a fact the original Wik page for the B1G had a paragraph about Nebraska's 2 earlier attempts to join (one was how Ohio State got in) that has vanished without a trace from the B1G Wik page and has never been seen there since.

Personally I have had a fight with Wiki for over a decade about personal family history (documents are in on file at a respected global archive) but Wiki keeps crediting a global corporate entity instead. It is the main reason I have not, not will I give Wiki a dime.

While Utx pursued several (SIAA / SoCon / SEC) schools like LSU and Mississippi, they turned down the SWC to stay put.