New England Conference
Encyclopedia
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 1938 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 today's Colonial Athletic Association
football conference.
The conference had six members—five of them public land-grant institutions, and the other the private Northeastern University. When Northeastern left the conference in 1945, the five remaining members plus New England's other major land-grant institution, the University of Vermont
, formed the Yankee Conference
under a new charter. That conference would become football-only in 1975, and was eventually absorbed by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. The A10 disbanded its football conference after the 2006 season, following the creation of the CAA football conference and the decision of all of the A10 football programs to join the new league. 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 A10 and CAA.
United States
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, more specifically in New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
, that operated from 1938 to 1947. As four of its charter members remained aligned in football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
from the conference's inception through 2011, this conference can be considered the earliest ancestor of today's Colonial Athletic Association
Colonial Athletic Association
The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...
football conference.
The conference had six members—five of them public land-grant institutions, and the other the private Northeastern University. When Northeastern left the conference in 1945, the five remaining members plus New England's other major land-grant institution, the University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
, formed the Yankee Conference
Yankee Conference
The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. It once sponsored competition in many sports, but eventually became a football-only league...
under a new charter. That conference would become football-only in 1975, and was eventually absorbed by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. The A10 disbanded its football conference after the 2006 season, following the creation of the CAA football conference and the decision of all of the A10 football programs to join the new league. 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 A10 and CAA.
Members
- University of Connecticut
- University of Maine
- Massachusetts State College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- University of New Hampshire
- Northeastern University
- Rhode Island State College (now University of Rhode Island)
Men's basketball
- 1938 Rhode Island
- 1939 Rhode Island
- 1940 Rhode Island
- 1941 Rhode Island
- 1942 Rhode Island
- 1943 Rhode Island
- 1944 Rhode Island
- 1945 DNP
- 1946 Rhode Island