Little Ten Conference (Wisconsin)

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The Little Ten Conference is a former high school athletic conference in Wisconsin, formed in 1925 and reorganizing into the Wisconsin Little Ten Conference in 1970.

History

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1925–1959

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Lua error in Module:OSM_Location_map at line 456: bad argument #1 to 'abs' (number expected, got nil). The Little Ten Conference was founded in 1925 by ten medium- to smaller-sized schools in south central Wisconsin: Beaver Dam, Berlin, Columbus, Hartford Union, Horicon, Mayville, Portage, Ripon, Watertown and Waupun.[1] The conference went through a few membership changes during its first few seasons, starting with the loss of Portage to the South Central Conference in 1926[2][3] and Watertown to the Southern Six in 1928.[4][5] The conference added West Bend in 1929[6][7] and Oconomowoc in 1930 to bring conference membership back up to ten.[8] During the late 1940s and early 1950s, several schools in the northern and western suburbs of the Milwaukee area (Cedarburg, Menomonee Falls, Port Washington and former members Watertown) applied for membership in the Little Ten multiple times, only to be rejected at each attempt over concerns about managing a fourteen-member conference.[9][10][11] This series of rejections led to the formation of the Braveland Conference in 1953 by the four failed Little Ten applicants.[12] The Little Ten would finally expand its membership roster in 1959, when Arrowhead joined from the Southeastern Wisconsin Conference and Watertown rejoined from the Braveland Conference.[13]

1959–1970

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With conference membership increasing to twelve, the Little Ten subdivided into Northern and Southern Divisions for the 1959-60 school year:[14]

Northern Little Ten Southern Little Ten
Berlin Arrowhead
Columbus Beaver Dam
Horicon Hartford Union
Mayville Oconomowoc
Ripon Watertown
Waupun West Bend

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In 1965, Arrowhead left to join the Southeastern Badger Conference,[15][16] bringing conference membership to eleven. By the late 1960s, increasing gaps in enrollment between the smaller schools in the Northern Little Ten and the larger schools in the Southern Little Ten were creating problems with competitive balance, and the schools in the Southern Little Ten began looking to secede from the conference.[17][18][19] The conference officially subdivided into two separate conferences in 1966[20] and both conferences completely disbanded in 1970. The five Southern Little Ten members (six with the split of West Bend into East and West)[21] joined with Waupun, who had the highest enrollment in the Northern Little Ten,[22] to form the Wisconsin Little Ten Conference.[23] The five schools in the Northern Little Ten disbanded to find other conferences with schools more similar in enrollment size.[24][25]

Conference membership history

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Final members

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School Location Affiliation Enrollment Mascot Colors Joined Left Conference Joined Current Conference
Beaver Dam Beaver Dam, WI Public 1,124 Golden Beavers     1925 1970 Wisconsin Little Ten Badger
Berlin Berlin, WI Public 474 Indians     1925 1970 East Central South Central
Columbus Columbus, WI Public 390 Cardinals     1925 1970 Central Suburban Capitol
Hartford Union Hartford, WI Public 1,281 Orioles     1925 1970 Wisconsin Little Ten North Shore
Horicon Horicon, WI Public 275 Marshmen     1925 1970 Flyway Trailways
Mayville Mayville, WI Public 275 Cardinals     1925 1970 Scenic Moraine Wisconsin Flyway
Oconomowoc Oconomowoc, WI Public 1,657 Raccoons     1930 1970 Wisconsin Little Ten Classic Eight
Ripon Ripon, WI Public 484 Tigers     1925 1970 East Central South Central
Watertown Watertown, WI Public 1,170 Goslings     1925,

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1928,

1970

Southern Six, Wisconsin Little Ten Badger
Waupun Waupun, WI Public 573 Warriors     1925 1970 Wisconsin Little Ten Capitol
West Bend[a] West Bend, WI Public 2,025 Badgers     1929 1970 Wisconsin Little Ten Glacier Trails

Previous members

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School Location Affiliation Enrollment Mascot Colors Joined Left Conference Joined Current Conference
Arrowhead Hartland, WI Public 2,076 Warhawks     1959 1965 Southeastern Badger Classic Eight
Portage Portage, WI Public 705 Warriors     1925 1926 Southern Six Badger

Notes

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  1. ^ Split into West Bend East and West Bend West High Schools prior to the 1970-71 school year.

Membership timeline

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</timeline>  Northern Little Ten  Southern Little Ten

List of state champions

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Fall sports

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None

Winter sports

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Boys Basketball
School Year Division
Watertown 1928 Single Division
Mayville 1935 Class B
Beaver Dam 1937 Class B

Spring sports

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Baseball
School Year Division
West Bend 1951 Single Division
Oconomowoc 1959 Single Division
Boys Track & Field
School Year Division
Berlin 1931 Class B
West Bend 1934 Class B
Horicon 1937 Class C
Horicon 1938 Class C
Horicon 1939 Class C
Horicon 1954 Class C
Horicon 1959 Class C
Berlin 1961 Class B
Arrowhead 1965 Class B
Ripon 1968 Class B

List of conference champions

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Boys Basketball

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School Quantity Years
Mayville 11 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1969, 1970
Beaver Dam 10 1927, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1960, 1966
Oconomowoc 9 1932, 1938, 1946, 1951, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1968
Watertown 8 1928, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1970
Columbus 7 1929, 1932, 1954, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968
Ripon 7 1926, 1931, 1932, 1938, 1949, 1950, 1966
Hartford Union 6 1936, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958
Horicon 4 1936, 1940, 1941, 1945
Waupun 4 1930, 1944, 1955, 1967
West Bend 2 1958, 1965
Berlin 1 1946
Arrowhead 0
Portage 0

Football

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School Quantity Years
Oconomowoc 11 1942, 1946, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969
Beaver Dam 10 1928, 1933, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963
West Bend 10 1933, 1934, 1950, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969
Mayville 9 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1944, 1968
Ripon 8 1930, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947
Berlin 6 1945, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1961, 1967
Waupun 6 1925, 1926, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966
Horicon 3 1932, 1959, 1969
Columbus 2 1962, 1964
Hartford Union 2 1940, 1968
Portage 1 1927
Watertown 1 1960
Arrowhead 0

References

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