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The Founders League is an American athletic league comprising a number of college preparatory schools. [1] Founded in 1984, it consists of ten schools in Connecticut and one from eastern New York. All of the schools in the Conference are founding members. [2] The League is one of eleven in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council. [3]
Avon Old Farms is a member of the Founders League.. Avon ice hockey teams have won nine Division I New England Championships (five between 2004 and 2010). In the 2015–16 season, the Winged Beavers won the Founders League and landed third in the USHR standings. [5]
Choate is a member of the Founders League, and competes against schools in the New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions. The athletic directors of Choate and the other members of the Eight Schools Association compose the Eight Schools Athletic Council, which organizes sports events and tournaments among ESA schools.
On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League (AFL). [5] In addition to William and Joseph Sullivan, other initial investors in the team were John Ames, a lawyer, [6] Dean Boylan, president of Boston Sand & Gravel), George Sargent, an insurance executive, Dom DiMaggio, former Boston Red Sox ...
The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) is an organization that serves as the governing body for sports in preparatory schools and leagues in New England. The organization has 169 full member schools as well as 24 associate member schools.
The Independent School League (ISL) is an athletic conference of sixteen private college-preparatory schools in Greater Boston. Its parent organization is the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC). [1] Founded in 1948, the ISL sponsors competitions in twenty-five sports. [2]
At the end of each season, Porter's competes against the league's most competitive teams in the New England Championships. [58] [59] The school has no mascot, although some call the teams Fighting Daisies. [60] Since the turn of the millennium, student athletes have earned a combined 12 Founder's League and 8 New England championship titles. [61]
The New England League was a mid-level league in American minor league baseball that played intermittently in five of the six New England states (Vermont excepted) between 1886 and 1949. After 1901 , it existed in the shadow of two Major League Baseball clubs in Boston and alongside stronger, higher-classification leagues.