Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference
The Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference is a former high school football conference with its membership concentrated in west central Wisconsin. Active from 1929 to 1944, the conference's member schools were affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History
The Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference was founded in 1929 by eight high schools in close proximity to the Black River and Chippewa River in western Wisconsin: Arcadia, Augusta, Black River Falls, Medford, Mondovi, Neillsville, Owen and Stanley. All member schools belonged to conferences which did not sponsor football at the time of its formation and grouped together to promote regular interscholastic competition. Aside from a few interruptions in membership, the conference's roster stayed stable for the first eight years of its existence. In 1938, Durand was welcomed as a new member of the conference, and along with Arcadia's return after a one-year hiatus, the Chippewa-Black River Falls Conference stood at nine members. A new alignment also debuted for the 1938 season that saw the members partitioned into eastern and western divisions:| Eastern Division | Western Division |
| Medford | Arcadia |
| Neillsville | Augusta |
| Owen | Black River Falls |
| Stanley | Durand |
| Mondovi |
Before the 1939 season, the Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference lost all of its members in the Western Division when the Mississippi Valley Conference began sponsorship of football. Mosinee joined the conference to bring membership to five schools, which is where it remained for the rest of its existence. After the 1944 season, the Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference was disbanded when three of its members joined their primary home for competition, the Cloverbelt Conference, after its transition to eleven-player football was implemented for 1945. Medford and Mosinee played as independents for the 1945 season prior to the formation of the Lumberjack Conference in 1946.
Membership timeline
DateFormat = yyyy
ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20
Period = from:1929 till:1945
TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal
PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5
Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb
id:line value:black
id:bg value:white
PlotData=
width:15 textcolor:black shift: anchor:from fontsize:m
bar:1 color:lavender from:1929 till:1937 text:Arcadia
bar:1 color:yellowgreen from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:2 color:lavender from:1929 till:1932 text:Augusta
bar:2 color:lavender from:1933 till:1938 text:
bar:2 color:yellowgreen from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:3 color:lavender from:1929 till:1938 text:Black River Falls
bar:3 color:yellowgreen from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:4 color:lavender from:1929 till:1938 text:Medford
bar:4 color:green from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:4 color:lavender from:1939 till:1945 text:
bar:5 color:lavender from:1929 till:1938 text:Mondovi
bar:5 color:yellowgreen from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:6 color:lavender from:1929 till:1938 text:Neillsville
bar:6 color:green from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:6 color:lavender from:1939 till:1945 text:
bar:7 color:lavender from:1929 till:1938 text:Owen
bar:7 color:green from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:7 color:lavender from:1939 till:1945 text:
bar:8 color:lavender from:1929 till:1938 text:Stanley
bar:8 color:green from:1938 till:1939 text:
bar:8 color:lavender from:1939 till:1945 text:
bar:9 color:yellowgreen from:1938 till:1939 text:Durand
bar:10 color:lavender from:1939 till:1945 text:Mosinee
ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1929