New England Conference

New England Conference
Established	1938
Dissolved	1947
Association	NCAA
Division	Division I
Members	6
Region	Northeastern United States
Locations

The New England Conference (full name: New England College Conference of Intercollegiate Athletics) was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States, more specifically in New England, that operated from 1938 to 1947. As four of its charter members remained aligned in football from the conference's inception through 2011, this conference can be considered the earliest ancestor of today's Colonial Athletic Association football conference.

The conference had six members—five of them public land-grant institutions, and the other the private Northeastern University. When Northeastern left the conference in 1945, the five remaining members plus New England's other major land-grant institution, the University of Vermont, formed the Yankee Conference under a new charter. That conference would become football-only in 1975, and was eventually absorbed by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. The A10 disbanded its football conference after the 2006 season, following the creation of the CAA football conference and the decision of all of the A10 football programs to join the new league. Further illustrating the continuity between these conferences, the automatic berth of the Yankee Conference in the Division I FCS playoffs passed in succession to the A10 and CAA.

Members

• University of Connecticut
• University of Maine
• Massachusetts State College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• University of New Hampshire
• Northeastern University
• Rhode Island State College (now University of Rhode Island)

Champions

Men's basketball

• 1938 Rhode Island
• 1939 Rhode Island
• 1940 Rhode Island
• 1941 Rhode Island
• 1942 Rhode Island
• 1943 Rhode Island
• 1944 Rhode Island
• 1945 DNP
• 1946 Rhode Island

External links

• Yankee Conference History and List of Football Champions