The Mid-Eastern Conference is a former high school

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, in operation from 1952 to 1970. Its membership was concentrated in northeastern Wisconsin, and all of its member schools belonged to the

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History

The Mid-Eastern Conference was formed in 1952 by a split of the Northeastern Wisconsin Conference, an athletic organization for medium-sized schools in the Fox River Valley region. All eight members of the established conference's Western Division ( Clintonville, Kaukauna, Kimberly,

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, New London, Shawano and Two Rivers) seceded to form the Mid-Eastern Conference, while the Eastern Division continued play as the NEW Conference. Membership was very stable over the course of the conference's history with all eight members competing together for sixteen years of the conference's eighteen-year life span. The only school to exit the conference was Neenah, who did so in 1968 to join with larger schools in the Fox River Valley Conference. The Mid-Eastern Conference was dissolved in 1970 as part of sweeping realignment in northeastern and east central Wisconsin. The three largest schools in the conference (Kaukauna, Kimberly and Menasha) joined with four schools from the Fox River Valley Conference ( Appleton East, Appleton West,

and Oshkosh) to form the

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. The other four schools, which were all smaller in enrollment, were dispersed to other area conferences based on geography and size. Clintonville became a charter member of the

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, New London joined the new

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, Shawano entered the Wisconsin Valley Conference and Two Rivers became part of a revamped Fox River Valley Conference.

Conference membership history

Membership timeline

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List of state champions

Fall sports

Winter sports

Spring sports

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Football

References

{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Wisconsin high school sports conferences Sports organizations established in 1952 1952 establishments in Wisconsin 1970 disestablishments in Wisconsin