http://dbpedia.org/data/Yankee_Conference.atom2025-01-01T16:02:43.769739ZOData Service and Descriptor Documenthttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Yankee_Conference2025-01-01T16:02:43.769739Z12210892368919461109093466The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. From 1947 to 1976, it sponsored competition in many sports, but was a football-only league from mid-1976 until its dissolution in 1996. It is essentially the ancestor of today's Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) football conference, and the continuation of the New England Conference, though all three leagues were founded under different charters and are considered separate conferences by the NCAA.Yankee ConferenceDivision II150New England; after 1986, Mid-Atlantic states250Division I1997College DivisionYankeeConferencelogo1988.pngDivision I-AA1946The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. From 1947 to 1976, it sponsored competition in many sports, but was a football-only league from mid-1976 until its dissolution in 1996. It is essentially the ancestor of today's Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) football conference, and the continuation of the New England Conference, though all three leagues were founded under different charters and are considered separate conferences by the NCAA. For the first half of its history, the Yankee Conference consisted of the flagship public universities of the six New England states. Conference expansion in the 1980s and 1990s added several colleges and universities from the Mid-Atlantic region.Yankee Conference