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New England Conference

FieldValue
nameNew England Conference
logo_size150
founded1923
dissolved1947
associationNCAA
divisionDivision I
teams5
regionNortheastern United States
mapNew England Conference-USA-states.png
map_size250

The New England Conference (full name: New England College Conference of Intercollegiate Athletics) was a collegiate sports conference in the Eastern United States, more specifically in New England, that operated from 1923 to 1947. As four of its charter members remained aligned in football from the conference's inception through 2011, this conference can be considered the earliest ancestor of the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference.

History

The conference was formed on January 29, 1923, with five charter members: Connecticut Agricultural College, University of Maine, Massachusetts Agricultural College, New Hampshire College, and Rhode Island State College. These public schools are now known as the Universities of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, respectively. Ralph D. Hetzel of New Hampshire was the conference's first president. Conference rules went into effect in September 1923.

Northeastern University, a private university, joined the conference in December 1936; 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, 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, officially beginning play in the 1947-48 season.

The Yankee Conference would become football-only in 1975, and then was absorbed by the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) in 1997. 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. With that, the CAA announced its football-sponsoring full members would start playing football in the CAA in 2007. Eventually, it was agreed that the A-10 would hand off management of its entire football conference to the CAA. Further illustrating the continuity between these conferences, the automatic berth of the Yankee Conference in the Division I FCS playoffs passed in succession to the A-10 and CAA.

Members

  • Connecticut Agricultural College (now University of Connecticut)
  • University of Maine
  • Massachusetts Agricultural College (later Massachusetts State College, now University of Massachusetts)
    • Still a member as of December 1929.
    • Left the conference by December 1936.
  • New Hampshire College (now University of New Hampshire)
  • Northeastern University
    • Joined in December 1936.
  • Rhode Island State College (now University of Rhode Island) Designates charter members at 1923 formation.

Champions

This is a partial list of champions of the New England Conference.

Football

SeasonChampionConference record
1923Maine3–0
1924Connecticut4–0
1925New Hampshire2–0–1
1926Connecticut3–1
1927Maine3–0
1928Maine
Connecticut2–0–1
1–0–2
1929New Hampshire2–0
1930New Hampshire2–0
1931New Hampshire
Rhode Island State2–0
1932Maine2–0–1
1933Rhode Island State2–0
1934New Hampshire1–0
1935Maine2–0
1936Connecticut State2–0
1937Connecticut State
New Hampshire1–0
1938Rhode Island State2–0
1939Maine3–0
1940New Hampshire2–0
1941Rhode Island State2–0
1942New Hampshire
Connecticut3–0
2–0
1943No competition
1944Maine
New Hampshire1–1
1945Connecticut
Rhode Island State2–0
1–0
1946New Hampshire
Connecticut2–0–1

Men's basketball

SeasonChampionConference record
1923–24New Hampshire
Rhode Island2–1
2–1
1924–25Connecticut3–0
1925–26Connecticut3–1
1926–27New Hampshire5–0
1927–28Connecticut3–1
1928–29Rhode Island4–1
1929–30Rhode Island3–1
1930–31Rhode Island3–1
1931–32New Hampshire2–0
1932–33Rhode Island4–0
1933–34Rhode Island4–0
1934–35Rhode Island4–1
1935–36New Hampshire3–0
1936–37Rhode Island8–0
1937–38Rhode Island8–0
1938–39Rhode Island7–1
1939–40Rhode Island8–0
1940–41Connecticut
Rhode Island7–1
7–1
1941–42Rhode Island8–0
1942–43Rhode Island7–1
1943–44Connecticut6–0
1944–45Rhode Island5–1
1945–46Rhode Island4–0
1946–47Vermont3–0

References

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References

  1. (January 30, 1923). "New England Schools Begin Organization". [[The Pittsburgh Post]].
  2. (January 29, 1923). "N. E. Colleges Adopt Code of Athletics". Fall River Evening News.
  3. (September 22, 1923). "College Conference on Sports Sunday". [[The Boston Globe]].
  4. (December 14, 1936). "Northeastern Joins Conference". [[Hartford Courant]].
  5. (December 18, 1946). "N.E. Conference Formed Among Six Colleges". [[The Berkshire Eagle]].
  6. (December 5, 1929). "N. E. Athletic Conference Idea". [[The Burlington Free Press]].
  7. Pollak, Mark. (2019). "The Playing Grounds of College Football: A Comprehensive Directory, 1869 to Today". McFarland & Company, Inc..
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