Triangular Football League

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Triangular Football League
FormerlyNorthern Intercollegiate Football Association (1885–1886)
Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (1887–1891)
New England Intercollegiate Football Association (1892)
Founded1885 [1]
Ceased1901
Sports fielded

The Triangular Football League or New England Intercollegiate Football Association was an American college football conference. Its founding members were Dartmouth, Williams, and Amherst. The Triangular Football League was formed in 1892, [2] and was a successor organization to the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (1887–1891) and the Northern Intercollegiate Football Association (1885–1886). [3] MIT had been a member of the previous iterations as late as 1887, and Wesleyan became a member of the Triangular Football League by at least 1899. [3]

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  2. ↑ "Favoring A New League". The New York Times . New York, New York. May 26, 1892. p. 3. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  3. 1 2 Triangular Football League Archived July 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , College Football Data Warehouse.
  4. ↑ "Dartmouth Wins The Pennant". The Sun . New York, New York. November 29, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  5. ↑ "Williams Material". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 21, 1891. p. 4. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. ↑ "Amherst Wins The New England Championship". The Daily Standard Union . Brooklyn, New York. November 19, 1892. p. 8. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  7. ↑ "Won The Championship". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1893. p. 5. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
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