Former collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States
Yankee Conference
Association
NCAA
Founded
1946
Ceased
1997
Division
College Division (1946–1972) Division II (1973–1977) Division I (1978–1997)
Subdivision
Division I-AA (1978–1997)
Region
New England; after 1986, Mid-Atlantic states
The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. From 1947 to 1976, it sponsored competition in many sports, but was a football-only league from mid-1976 until its dissolution in 1996. It is essentially the ancestor of today's CAA Football, the legally separate football league operated by the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), and the continuation of the New England Conference, though all three leagues were founded under different charters and are considered separate conferences by the NCAA. Also, CAA Football does not recognize the New England Conference as one of its predecessors, though it does recognize the Yankee Conference as such.[1]
For the first half of its history, the Yankee Conference consisted of the flagship public universities of the six New England states. Conference expansion in the 1980s and 1990s added several colleges and universities from the Mid-Atlantic region.
^"The CAA & CAA Football". Coastal Athletic Association. Retrieved July 25, 2023. The conference celebrated 75 years in 2022, with its roots tracing back to the Yankee Conference (1947-1996) and the Atlantic 10 Football Conference (1997-2006) before CAA Football begin (sic) in 2007.
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University of Vermont, to form the YankeeConference under a new charter in 1946, with competition starting in 1947. That conference eventually dropped all sports...
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of the YankeeConference. In 1997, the YankeeConference was absorbed by the Atlantic 10 Conference. The A-10 inherited the YankeeConference's automatic...
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I-AA from its formation in 1978, as members of the YankeeConference and later the Atlantic 10 Conference. Boston University terminated the varsity football...
the YankeeConference to mark the first time they participated in conference play. UMass would go on to be 10-time champions of the YankeeConference. The...
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000 offensive yards for three straight seasons at Delaware and was YankeeConference Offensive Player of the Year as a senior. In the 1987 NFL draft, the...
varsity. The program moved up to Division I-AA (now FCS) and joined the YankeeConference in 1987, beginning official competition in 1988. Led by quarterback...
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teams in 1981, with champions of five conferences—Big Sky, Mid-Eastern, Ohio Valley, Southwestern, and Yankee—receiving automatic bids. The top four...
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