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, in operation from 1962 to 1984. Its member schools were affiliated with the

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History

1962-1970

The Central State Conference, originally known as the Central-C Conference, was formed in 1962 by eight small- to medium-sized public high schools and one private Catholic high school in central Wisconsin. Five schools were former members of the Central Lakes Conference (

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, Necedah,

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, Port Edwards and Wild Rose), three belonged to the 7-C Conference ( Adams-Friendship, Tri-County and Westfield) and one formerly competed as an independent (

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). Almost immediately, the conference began to lose members to rural school district consolidation and closings. The first such change occurred in 1963, when Oxford was closed and its students were redistricted to Westfield. In 1966, conference membership was cut in half due to the closing of Madonna High School and the defection of three schools (Adams-Friendship, Tri-County and Westfield) to the newly formed Vacationland Conference. Amherst and Iola-Scandinavia joined as football-only members from the Central Wisconsin Conference the next year to bring the football roster to five schools. In 1968, Bowler joined the conference from the Wolf River Valley Conference as a football-only member, and the loop changed its name to the Central State Conference. Rosholt and Tigerton joined the football alignment the next year, and the conference had eight football-playing members.

1970-1984

In 1970, the Central State Conference underwent a significant expansion with six schools becoming full members. All five football-only members became full members of the conference: three from the shuttered Wolf River Valley Conference (Bowler, Rosholt and Tigerton) and two from the Central Wisconsin Conference (Amherst and Iola-Scandinavia). Tri-County, making their return after the dissolution of the Vacationland Conference, rounded out the expanded group. Granton and Gresham would join the Central State Conference in 1972; Granton was previously in the

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and Gresham competed as an independent for two years after the collapse of the Wolf River Valley Conference. Granton's stay would be brief, as they would return to the Marawood Conference in 1976.

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moved over from the Central Wisconsin Conference in 1977 to take their place, and Necedah left to become a charter member of the Scenic Bluffs Conference in 1979. They were replaced by Menominee Indian High School, who acquired their first ever conference affiliation after opening a few years earlier. The Central State Conference merged with the Central Wisconsin Conference in 1984, taking the more established conference's name in the process.

Conference membership history

Full members

Football-only members

Membership timeline

Full members

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Football members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1962 till:1984 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:lavender from:1962 till:1966 text:Adams-Friendship (1962-1965) bar:2 color:lavender from:1962 till:1966 text:Madonna (1962-1965) bar:3 color:lavender from:1962 till:1984 text:Port Edwards (1962-1983) bar:4 color:lavender from:1962 till:1966 text:Tri-County (1962-1965) bar:4 color:lavender from:1970 till:1984 text:(1970-1983) bar:5 color:lavender from:1962 till:1966 text:Westfield (1962-1965) bar:6 color:lavender from:1962 till:1984 text:Wild Rose (1962-1983) bar:7 color:lavender from:1963 till:1977 text:Almond (1963-1976) bar:7 color:lavender from:1977 till:1984 text:Almond-Bancroft (1977-1983) bar:8 color:lavender from:1967 till:1984 text:Amherst (1967-1983) bar:9 color:lavender from:1967 till:1984 text:Iola-Scandinavia (1967-1983) bar:10 color:lavender from:1968 till:1984 text:Bowler (1968-1983) bar:11 color:lavender from:1969 till:1984 text:Rosholt (1969-1983) bar:12 color:lavender from:1969 till:1984 text:Tigerton (1969-1983) bar:13 color:lavender from:1975 till:1979 text:Necedah (1975-1978) bar:14 color:lavender from:1977 till:1984 text:Shiocton (1977-1983) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1962

List of state champions

Fall sports

None

Winter sports

Spring sports

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Girls Basketball

Football

References

{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Wisconsin high school sports conferences Sports organizations established in 1970 1970 establishments in Wisconsin 1984 disestablishments in Wisconsin