Inter-Academic League


The Inter-Academic League is an inter-scholastic athletic conference. This high school sports league consists of selective private schools in the Philadelphia area.

History

The schools were organized into a conference early in 1887 when they came together as the Interacademic Athletic Association. Two initial sports offered by the league were football and track and field.
It was one of the earliest permanent interscholastic football leagues, and the rivalry between Penn Charter and Germantown Academy is perhaps the oldest football rivalry in the country.
Early members were Germantown Academy, Haverford Grammar, Penn Charter, De Lancey, Friends' Central School, Swarthmore High School, and Episcopal Academy. In the first decade after the turn of the century the league increased the number of sports, adding ice hockey, baseball, tennis, and basketball.

Member schools

Boys' Members:
InstitutionLocationFoundedAffiliationEnrollmentNicknameColors
Episcopal AcademyNewtown Square, Pennsylvania1785Episcopalianism1,268Churchmen
Germantown AcademyFort Washington, Pennsylvania1759Nonsectarian1,189Patriots
Haverford SchoolHaverford, Pennsylvania1884Nonsectarian1,013Fords
Malvern Preparatory SchoolMalvern, Pennsylvania1842Catholicism640Friars
Springside Chestnut Hill AcademyPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania1861Nonsectarian1,080Blue Devils
William Penn Charter SchoolPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania1689Quakerism960Quakers

Girls' Members:
InstitutionLocationFoundedAffiliationEnrollmentNicknameColors
Academy of Notre Dame de NamurRadnor, Pennsylvania1856Catholicism559Irish
Agnes Irwin SchoolRosemont, Pennsylvania1869Nonsectarian606Owls
Baldwin SchoolBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania1888Nonsectarian571Bears
Episcopal AcademyNewtown Square, Pennsylvania1785Episcopalianism1,268Churchmen
Germantown AcademyFort Washington, Pennsylvania1759Nonsectarian1,189Patriots
Springside Chestnut Hill AcademyPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania1861Nonsectarian1,080Blue Devils
William Penn Charter SchoolPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania1689Quakerism960Quakers