The Mississinewa Valley Conference was an IHSAA-sanctioned conference based in East Central Indiana that lasted between 1952 and 1977. The conference started out as a conference for larger rural schools as a way to provide a higher level of competition than their respective County Conferences typically provided. The conference was stable for its first decade, but consolidation and more regionally based conferences with schools of similar sizes had schools defecting the MVC. The conference ended in 1977, with three schools forming the

Classic Athletic Conference The Classic Athletic Conference was a short-lived Indiana High School Athletic Association, IHSAA-sanctioned conference based in northern East Central Indiana. Formed by the largest schools in their predecessor conferences, the conference only las ...

, and one team each joining the Mid-Eastern and Mid-Indiana conferences.

Former members

# Eastern played in both the MVC and TCC from 1953 until 1965. # Played concurrently in MVC and GCC 1952–65. # Portland played concurrently in the Jay County Conference and MVC 1952–54. # Known as Driver 1959–66. # Team name was Yellow Jackets before 1959. # Wes-Del played concurrently in the MVC and the White River Conference from 1969 to 1977.

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:750 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1951 till:1977 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:s bar:1 color:red from:1952 till:1965 text: Eastern (Greentown) (1952-65) bar:2 color:red from:1952 till:1965 text: Fairmount (1952-65) bar:3 color:red from:1952 till:1977 text: Mississinewa (1952-77) bar:4 color:red from:1952 till:1975 text:

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: *Portland, Oregon, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon *Portland, Maine, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine *Isle of Portland, a tied island in the English Channel Portland may also r ...

(1952-75) bar:5 color:red from:1952 till:1967 text: Royerton (1952-67) bar:6 color:red from:1952 till:1972 text:

Winchester Winchester (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs N ...

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Hagerstown Hagerstown is a city in Washington County, Maryland, United States, and its county seat. The population was 43,527 at the 2020 census. Hagerstown ranks as Maryland's sixth-most populous incorporated city and is the most populous city in the ...

(1962-66) bar:8 color:red from:1963 till:1969 text: Anderson Highland (1963-69) bar:9 color:red from:1965 till:1977 text: Eastbrook (1965-77) bar:10 color:red from:1966 till:1977 text: Wes-Del (1966-77) bar:11 color:red from:1967 till:1977 text:

Delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet * D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * Delta Air Lines, a major US carrier ...

(1967-77) bar:12 color:red from:1975 shift:(-50,-3) till:1977 text: Jay County (1975-77) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1955 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(175,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"MVC Membership History"

References

Indiana high school athletic conferences High school sports conferences and leagues in the United States Indiana High School Athletic Association disestablished conferences {{Indiana-sport-stub