Fox Valley Tri-County League
The Fox Valley Tri-County League is a former high school athletic conference in Wisconsin, founded in 1924 and dissolved in 1970. Its membership was concentrated in the southern Fox River watershed and all public school members belonged to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History
1924–1939
The Fox Valley Tri-County League, also known by its original name of the Tri-County Interscholastic Association, was founded in 1924 by eight small high schools in east central Wisconsin. Despite the Tri-County moniker, original league members were located in four Wisconsin counties. The number of members decreased to seven in 1928 when Glenbeulah left to join the Kettle Moraine Conference. North Fond du Lac joined the Fox Valley Tri-County League in 1929, bringing the loop back up to eight member schools. Slinger left the conference in 1935 to join the 4-C Conference, bringing membership down to seven schools. In 1939, the Fox Valley Tri-County League started sponsorship of six-man football, with all seven members participating in the first season.1939–1962
By the late 1940s, North Fond du Lac and Rosendale had both dropped out of the conference as football members, leaving the conference with five football-playing schools. Green Lake, a member of the 7-C Conference for other sports, joined in 1949 for football and played for three seasons until the formation of the Central Lakes Conference in 1952. North Fond du Lac, who rejoined the conference for football in 1951, took their place. They, along with all other league members, switched from six-man to eight-man football for the 1952 football season. 1955, Hustisford High School joined the Fox Valley Tri-County League after nearly two decades of competing as an independent, and Random Lake of the Kettle Moraine Conference joined for football when the conference dropped sponsorship of the sport. Random Lake rejoined the KMC when the conference reinstated football as a competitive sport for the 1958 season. The Fox Valley Tri-County League experienced a three-member loss in 1958 when the new Scenic Moraine Conference was formed, with three of the largest high schools in the conference leaving to join. Rosendale reinstated their football program in 1958, and Lowell-Reeseville formed their first team, joining the conference for football a year before full membership was attained. Three schools joined as full members in 1959: Fox Lake, Green Lake and Lowell-Reeseville.1962–1970
Like many conferences in rural areas during the 1950s and 1960s, consolidation of school districts had a great effect on conference affiliation. Fox Lake was the first conference member affected, as they left after consolidating with Waupun in 1962. Winnebago Lutheran Academy would become the first private school to join the Fox Valley Tri-County League: first as a football-only member for the 1962 and 1963 seasons, and then as a full member in 1964 after the dissolution of the short-lived Badger Lutheran Conference. The conference also made the transition from eight-man to eleven-man football for the 1963 football season. Two consolidations further whittled away conference membership in 1969. Brandon and Rosendale agreed to a merger of their two districts, and they combined to form a single athletic program until Laconia High School was completed in 1972. In addition, Lowell-Reeseville consolidated with Juneau High School to form the new Dodgeland High School. Rosendale-Brandon remained in the Fox Valley Tri-County League for its first season, while Dodgeland took Juneau's spot in the Eastern Suburban Conference. St. Lawrence Seminary in Mount Calvary was added to the conference that year to put membership back up to seven schools. They would only play one season in the Fox Valley Tri-County League, as the conference disbanded in 1970. Three members became charter members of the Flyway Conference, two schools joined the new Bay-Lakes Conference, Green Lake joined the Dual County Conference and Hustisford joined the Eastern Suburban Conference.Membership timeline
Full members
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