Cairo and Eldorado joined for football only in 1992. LaMoille joined in 1996. Friday Oct 28. List of Illinois High School Association member conferences IHSA South Suburban (Blue) - Illinois High School Association Varsity teams competing includedLee Center, Ohio,Bureau Township,Hennepin, LaMoille, andMalden. South Suburban Catholic Conference - SSCC. Conferences & Affiliated Schools | Schools | IHSA Formed in 1993, its charter members were placed in two divisions: The Mississippicontained Anna-Jonesboro, Chester, Du Quoin, Nashville, Pinckneyville and Sparta. In 1973, Cary-Grove, Stevenson and Woodstock joined and Lake Forest left. However, the schools of the western division are also larger than the schools of the eastern division. Formed in 1982 with Alden-Hebron, Kirkland Hiawatha, North Boone, Rockford Lutheran and South Beloit. In 1986 Mahomet-Seymour joined. (Many schools continued to play Wheaton in football and basketball, but those games officially were non-conference games.). No misprint for unknown reasons 3 schoolswere in both divisions. Formed in 1960 its charter members were Marian Catholic,Maryville Academy, Wheaton St. Francis and St. Francis De Sales. In 1958 Thornton Fractional split into North and South and left the conference and Leyden split into East and West and left also. These 3 schools became part of the Prairieland Conference. In 1952 the conference featured Hillsboro, Kincaid South Fork, Litchfield, Pana, Shelbyville, Taylorville and Vandailia. The only conference theStar Courierawarded a trophy was the Blackhawk. In the fall of 2015, PeoriaCentral (now PeoriaHigh) andPeoriaManual returned and brought along Peoria Richwoods and PeoriaNotre Dame. AshtonandFranklin Centerconsolidated in 2004. Cary-Grove, Jacobs and Woodstock left in 1978 to charter the Fox Valley and the division format was scrapped. The East was created with Johnston City, partial members Cairo, Eldorado and Hamilton Co., and Carmi/White Co. and Fairfield. Members included Bunker Hill,Worden,Livingston, St. Paul Highland,Venice,Breese,Aviston,and Wesclin. More information on the Black Diamond has been offered byAdam Rosoho: The Black Diamond Conference was created first as a football-only conference in 1949. Benldjoined in 1935. Only 8 schools sponsored baseball. Eldorado, Johnston City, McLeansboro, Metropolis andNorris Citycompeted in football under the Southern Illini banner from 1957 to 1961. Peru St. Bede left in 1996 and in 2002 Herscher and Rochester joined and in 2004 Eureka rejoined along with new member Rantoul. . Piper Cityadded football in 1952. Below is a newspaper clipping regarding the IVY Conference football standings in 1930. The realignment split the association into three roughly equal and geographically contiguous conferences, one of which, the southeast, contained most of the predominantly AfricanAmerican schools (compared to one school in the remaining two conferences). Normal (Community West) Normal (Community) However, upon adoption of the sport, Evanston Academy and Morgan Park Academy proved as formidable as the public schools. In 1965 Carbondale left and Nashville replaced them. Carroll, Orangeville, Pearl City and Rockford Lutheran. Richmond-Burton did likewisein 1958 the same year Loves Park Harlem and Rockford St. Thomas dropped out. The 2 new members were the Eureka Hornets and Forman Braves (Forest City, Manito, Topeka consolidation). In 1965, Niles West was also moved out and Glenbard East joined as well as new school Downers Grove South. Beginning withthe 2006-07 school year, Earlville and Leland formed a co-op for all sports and are known as Earlville-Leland. The conference is split up into two divisions for all interscholastic activities. The only change in this leagues 19-year history was in its final season in 1990 when the Winnebago/Pecatonica co-op reduced the loop to 7 teams. Stonefort, 45 (3-yr), Alden Deaton, closed 1963. Prairie Ridge opened in 1997 and Grayslake also joined the loop that same year. The Olympic conference name was resurrected in 1976 with completely different schools. Rochelle rejoined in 1937. In 1958NewBostonand Monmouth Warrenwere added andGladstone-Oquawkaplayed an independent schedule in football forthis one season only. Franklin Centerjoined the football frays in 1957 and Winnebago left in 1964. Hopefully, local history and memories of the conference will be preserved and somehow not be erased entirely. Naperville and Wheaton Central left in 1975 and Lake Park and new school Streamwood were added in 1979. MileSplits official meet page for the 2022 South Suburban Blue Conference, hosted by Midlothian (Bremen) in Cook County IL. In 1971, the smallest 7 schools left to form the Little Okaw Valley and 3schools were replacements-Decatur St Teresa, St Joseph-Ogden and Warrensburg-Latham. Gladstone-Oquawka,Reynolds,Roosevelt MilitaryandStronghurstcompeted in football in 1952 the loops final season. ), Woodlawn, Wayne City, Thompsonville, Norris City-Omaha-Enfield (NCOE). Riverside-Brookfield joined in 1982 and Glenbard East left in 1983. The year 2000 was the last year under the Upstate Illini name. Alton Marquette left the league in 1970 and ESL Assumption left in 1974. The official start of the conference is July 1, 2010. The three schoolsonly stayed for one school year (Pleasant View was closed in the spring of 1936 and is now a nursing home), butWoodstock Toddjoined in the fall of 1936 to show eight schools werein theleague. If you have any questions regarding a conference you wish to learn more about you can contactTomdirectly atTom471@earthlink.net. BudaandSheffieldconsolidated in 1961 to formBuda Western. The school serves an area of approximately 9 square miles (23km2), & serves over 2,000 students in grades 9-12 who reside in the near South Suburban communities of Lansing and Lynwood. In 1950 the Kankakee Valley football conference consisted of Bradley,Crete,Kankakee St. Patrick, Momence and St. Anne. Momence and St Anne played in both this league and the Wil-Ro-Kee all 3 seasons. Thornridge High School first opened to the public in 1960 after completing construction of the current main building. From 1996 to 2002, the leagues schools competedin football under the Catholic Metro banner. To view even more of the history of this conference check outhttp://ballpress.com/conf/~swc.shtml. In 1953 Shulsburg, Wisconsin joined the loop making this a unique circuit with schools from 3 different states. Monmouth declined the invitation and remained an independent. The resulting 10 team circuit played its final year in 1979. St. Joseph played an independent schedule in 1975 onlyand was brought back into the fold the following year when St. Francis De Sales left. Wheaton Christian participated in football in 1983 only. -Yearbook. The league was formed whenWheaton, Naperville, and West Chicago from the DuPage County League joined Batavia,Dundee, Geneva, and St. Charles of the Kane County Conference. The revamped Meridian lasted only very briefly when in 1993 Bethany dropped football. Conference play began in the 1975-76 school year. In 1973 Granite City split into North and South with South remaining in the league until leaving in 1975 and North an Independent. They play in the Mississippi Division. Dissatisfaction continued and the following year, the league dissolved. IHSA Central Suburban (South) - Illinois High School Association He must have completed over fifteen units of academic study (or its equivalent); the word unit to mean one study for four hours a week, carried for one school year. This edition was formed in 1966 with the charter members being Dwight, Lemont, Lisle,Marseilles, Plano, Sandwich, Wilmington and Yorkville. The Southern Conference broke up in 1948 when the schools began to become integrated into the IHSA state tournaments. In 1980 Industry dropped football and Pleasant Hill replaced them in 1981. Formed in 1974, the 7 members were Dakota, Freeport Aquin, Galena,Lanark, Lena-Winslow, Stockton and Warren. Onarga Militaryjoined in 1956. South Suburban Action Conference | Lansing IL - Facebook The 1970-71 schoolyear was the leagues last with school members including Bethalto, Dupo, Highland, Madison, Roxana, and Triad. It lasted a year or two longer, thenwent completely defunct., In 2004 the Vermillion Valley conference name was resurrected for football with Bismark-Henning, Danville Schlarman, Fithian-Oakwood, Georgetown-Ridge Farm, Hoopeston Area, Westville and the Salt Fork coop (Catlin/Sidell-Jamaica) forming the new circuit. It is not known at this time when the league dissolved. By 1952 featured Immaculate Conception,Maryville Academy,Rockford St. Thomas, Elgin St. Edward,St. ProcopiusandWoodstock St. Mary. Other schoolsin thepast that were associated with this conference includeWittand Mt. Farmington joined in 1976 and left in 1982 along with Bushnell-Prairie City and Lewistown. Woodstock Marian left in 1981 and Providence joined in 1987. Mobile, Inc. and South West Suburban Conference. It is believed the conference, informal or not, was disbanded when Morris joined the Little 7 in 1973. The first football competition was held in 1948, but to be eligible for the championship schools had to play at least 3 other member schools. This was done erratically, but in the fall of 1925, the league formally split into two divisions. Adam Rosohotells us that this conference also includedElkvilleand Johnson City. The 5 charter member schools of the conference were joined by Geneseo for the 1940-41 school year. Yates City consolidated with Farmington in 1987, leaving the league with 4 teams (Brimfield, Elmwood, Illini Bluffs, and Williamsfield) until 1989, when the league reached Fulton County with the addition of London Mills (Spoon River Valley). After 1928 there were no more contests between the schools for girls sports. The South Inter-Conference Association is a former high school umbrella conference organizing extracurricular sporting activities in the southern portion of Cook, portions of Kendall and throughout Will and Kankakee Counties in Illinois. The Meridian conference was formed in 1959. This short lived conference offered football from 1954 through 1958. Springfield played an independent schedule in football from 1977 through 1979. In 1963 Kaneland moved to the bigger Little 7 conference and Paw Paw fielded a team for the first time in the league. In 2004,El PasoandGridleyconsolidated andChenoaleft the league by consolidating into Prairie Central. The Okaw Valley name was resurrected for football in 1990 with Argenta-Oreana, Clinton, Decatur St Teresa, Monticello, Sullivan and Warrensburg-Latham. Football ended in 1949 when Carterville, Christopher, Elkville, Sesser, and Zeigler formed the Black Diamond. This Conference formed in 1982 as a name change from the Big 9 to the NIC-10 with Belvidere, Freeport, Machesney Park Harlem, Rockford Auburn, Rockford Boylan, Rockford East,Rockford Guilford, Rockford Jefferson, Rockford West and Rockton Hononegah (wholeft the Shark Conferencein 1982). In 2003Colchesterjoined theSciota NW/LaHarpecoop and it was renamed West Prairie. Dundee left in 1976 and Barrington in 1977. With only 9 schools remaining, the FVC removed its divisions. Princevilles first year, as a Blackhawk member, occurred in 1946. Most of the schools reorganized under the PMBC Conference banner in 1954. In 1964, Joliet split into three separate schools; Central, East and West making this version of the conference the biggest it would ever become, 10 schools. In 1960 Joliet and newly opened Thornridge joined the loop. Red Bud until it moved to the Cahokia in 1972. Coaches such asB.R. In 1972 when Winnebago left for the Mid-Northernconference, Amboy took their place in the conference but leftin 1975 to join the newly formed Three Rivers conference. Notice | Privacy Baseball, Basketball, and Track were the sports competed in for titles in this highly competitive conference. The league instituted a championship game between the two division winners from 1970 to 1973. The Southwest Prairie Conference was formedbeginning in the 2006-07 school year. Girls also took part in the conferences annual literary and music contests from 1926 thru 1933, held the same day as the boys track and field meets. Charleston University High dropped football in 1955. In 1976 the present day Olympic conference was formeddrawing Abingdon, Aledo and Knoxville from the Little 6,Joy Westmer, Orion, Sherrard and Taylor Ridge Rockridge fromthe Corn Belt andMonmouthfrom the Illio. We have also seen Eureka, Ottawa Marquette,Bradford, Bureau Valley, St. Bede (Peru), Peoria Christian, and Streator Woodland in this conference. **Dundee Community High School, 1921-1957. The remaining 6 schools folded into one division. In 1956 Jerseyville and Pittsfield left and Hardin and Virginia took their place. View this conferences current website athttp://www.z-r.frnkln.k12.il.us/vortex/newbdc/. Rich Twp became Rich East in 1962 when that district split but remained in the conference. Countdown to football: Daily Southtown's preseason Top 10 rankings 1913 saw the end of the league, which had 24 members at the time,and reformed itself as the Chicago Public Athletic League (aka Chicago Public League). In 1952 this conference featuredChenoa,Cornell,El Paso,Fairbury,Flanagan,Gridley, Lexington andMinonk-Dana. 1965 also proved to be the leagues last with the majority of the schools forminga new Northeast conference in 1966. There has never been an alignment change in the history of this conference. ABOUT. Meanwhile, Greenfieldparticipated in football in the MSM from 1971 through 1975. They were the only Illinois school in this league which featured several schools in SW Wisconsin. B.M. They captured the basketball championship by posting a 10-0 record. Farmington and Knoxville left in 1992 for the Olympic, and were replaced by Astoria (who cooped with Table Grove VIT for football) and Havana. Parker)andWoodstock Toddcame aboard in the fall of 1936. In 1993 Taylorville left to join the newly forming Central State 8 and in 2003, Olney and Salem became the leagues newest members. South Elginjoined the conference in 2006. The conference was one of three (the Southwest Suburban Conference (SWSC) and Southland Athletic Conference) to be carved from the long extant South Inter-Conference Association (SICA); a large athletic conference which broke apart in 2005 after 33 years of existence. Champaign (Centennial) Champaign (Central) Danville (H.S.) From the SPC East Elmwood Park, Fenton, Ridgewood, and Riverside-Brookfield chartered the new Metro Suburban Conference while Lemont moved into the South Suburban Blue Conference and Westmont joined the Interstate Eight Conference small division.. In the Chicago area, the balance of power was just the reverse. [5], As of 200910, there are 14 members of the conference. In 1950,6 Vermillion Valley schools fieldedfootball teams:Chatsworth,Cullom,Forrest-Strawn-Wing, Herscher,OnargaandSaunemin. Its charter football members wereAssumption,Bethany,Illiopolis,Lovington, Maroa-Forsythe,MoweaquaandNiantic-Harristown. For some reason Ohio andWyanetplayed independent football schedules in 1976 and 1977 and did not fully joined the league until1978. Morton and Washington. The Southwest Suburban Conference is an athletic and competitive activity conference consisting of public secondary schools located in the south and southwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Both of the Kankakee schools left in 1968 and in 1970 Joliet Catholic and Marian Catholic joined. Red Grangewas still in high school at Wheaton when the Little Seven Conference was organized. By 1937, Marmion had dropped out and Big Rock had taken its place. The Indian Valleyscharter members were Annawan, De Pue, La Moille,TampicoandTiskilwafromthe Little 8 plusBradford,Buda Western,ManliusandWalnutfrom the Blackhawk plusAtkinsonfrom the Corn Belt (West). In 2005 Oneida ROWVA and Woodhull-Alwood co-oped in football andBiggsville Unionrejoined under the name of West Central having consolidated withStronghurst Southern. The following fall, football was added as Loyola, Holy Trinity, and St. Patrick had joined the league as Cathedral left as the league attempted to complete its first full school year. In 1960 both Effingham and St Elmo dropped out. From Robert Pruter: The league formed in 1928 withAcademy of Our Lady (Longwood),Alvernia,Aquinas,Loretto High,Loretto Academy,St. Catherine (Siena),St. Mary,St. Scholastica,St. Xavier,Visitation,Evanston Marywood, andWilmette Mallinckrodt. East St Louis-Lincolnwas in the league for one year only 1996. 1975 was the conferences final football season. Rochester will leave the conference for all sports in 2010 as it joins the large school Central State Eight. Lemont defeats Blue Island Eisenhower 55-14. They became the 7th and 8th members of the Blackhawk. The motivation in forming the league was madeclear by the Chicago Daily News:It was the logical thing to do, to give these private schoolathletes a chance to compete for championships the same as the city and Catholic league players. This was a 6-man football conference formed in the 1940s/50s. De Kalbleft the conference in2005. The Coal Belt Conference completely ended in 1956 when basketball was added by the BDC full time. Alton, Collinsville and East St. Louis, aside of schools that have seen splits, have been members of this conference for 83 straight years. The divisional winners played one another in a single championship game. (from Pat Heston) This conference was a segregated schools conference and wascomprisedthree geographic areas. Beginning in 1968, divisions were eliminated and the championship was determined on a best record basis. The last league competition ended in 1906. The conference even had girls basketball schedules and tournaments for three years. In 1967 Mooseheart joined the league and in 1973 Wheaton Christian did likewise. GilmanandReddickjoined in 1962 and the league reached its maximum of 10 teams. 1939-40: Christopher, Elkville, Sparta, Zeigler, Johnston City, Carterville, FromErick Bristow(Divernon HS):The conference included Divernon, Herrick, Witt and Tower Hill as well as Mt Auburn if I recall correctly. -Family Connection Besides Geneseo, the other pre-1976 members were known as the Bradford Panthers, Dunlap Eagles, Elmwood Trojans (right face), Galva Wildcats, Manlius Red Devils, Princeville Princes, Toulon Trojans (left face), Walnut Blue Raiders, Western Rams, Wethersfield Flying Geese, and the WyomingIndians. Newly opened Stagg joined in 1966 and Hillcrest in 1968. In 1940, Rockford split into Rockford East and Rockford West, and the conference became the Big 8. In selecting the field of 256, wins are the most important playoff selection criterion. Invitations were extended to Carthage andMonmouthand the first football competition was slated for 1949. The remaining schools reorganized in the winter of 1924 as the West Suburban Conference. . He also coached the boys to the conference titles that same season with a 19-4 record.). A.G. Spalding & Bros. donated a silver cup to give to the winnerof the football title. 2008-09 would be the last season for in the SWPC for Morris who would be moving to the NCIC Regan Division to begin the 2009-10 school year. Illinois High School Basketball Scores, stories, recruiting, news and more from around Illinois. This conference was alive and well in the 1930s, at least for football it was. In 1964 Macon fielded its first team in the league. [3], For 33 years prior to 2006, most of the public high schools in the south and southwest suburban Chicago area were a part of the South Inter-Conference Association (SICA) which by 2005 had reached a membership of 33 schools split into five divisions. Gardner dropped football in 1957 and Wilmington left the league in 1958. Rosevilleconsolidated withMonmouthHS in 2005, and Yorkwood cooped withJoy Westmerfor football in fall 2005. Herscher left in 1987 and the last year for the Northeast was 1990. In 2005 both Brown County and the Biggsville/Stronghurst coop left andPleasant Plains was added. Carlyle participated in the leagues football battles from 1974 to 1984. Played its first football in 1955 and the charter members wereBroadlands ABL,Catlin,Homer,Rossville-Alvin,Ridge Farm,St. Josephand Sidell-Jamaica. The Meridian Conference we know for certain existed in 1942. NCOE and Thompsonville left the Mid-South conference and joined the GEC at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year. Buncombe, 22 (3-yr school), Joe Calhoun, closed 1944. Participating members included Steward, Paw Paw, Compton, Kings, Lee Center, Lee, Franklin Grove, and Rollo. For more information check outhttp://www.answers.com/topic/cahokia-conference. Sports offered include boys and girls basketball, baseball, and girls volleyball. McHenry joined in 1953. Hannibal dropped out in 1986, the leagues last football season.
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