The Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference is a former high school football conference with its membership concentrated in west central Wisconsin. Active from 1929 to 1944, the conference's member schools were affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History The Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference was founded in 1929 by eight high schools in close proximity to the Black River and Chippewa River in western Wisconsin: Arcadia, Augusta, Black River Falls, Medford, Mondovi, Neillsville, Owen and Stanley. All member schools belonged to conferences which did not sponsor football at the time of its formation and grouped together to promote regular interscholastic competition. Aside from a few interruptions in membership, the conference's roster stayed stable for the first eight years of its existence. In 1938, Durand was welcomed as a new member of the conference, and along with Arcadia's return after a one-year hiatus, the Chippewa-Black River Falls Conference stood at nine members. A new alignment also debuted for the 1938 season that saw the members partitioned into eastern and western divisions: Eastern DivisionWestern DivisionMedfordArcadiaNeillsvilleAugustaOwenBlack River FallsStanleyDurandMondovi Before the 1939 season, the Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference lost all of its members in the Western Division when the Mississippi Valley Conference (of which all five schools were members) began sponsorship of football. Mosinee joined the conference to bring membership to five schools, which is where it remained for the rest of its existence. After the 1944 season, the Chippewa-Black River Valley Conference was disbanded when three of its members (Neillsville, Owen and Stanley) joined their primary home for competition, the Cloverbelt Conference, after its transition to eleven-player football was implemented for 1945. Medford and Mosinee played as independents for the 1945 season prior to the formation of the Lumberjack Conference in 1946.
Conference membership history SchoolLocationAffiliationMascotColorsSeasonsPrimary Conference(s)ArcadiaArcadia, WIPublicRaiders 1929–1936, 1938Mississippi ValleyAugustaAugusta, WIPublicBeavers 1929–1931, 1933–1938Little Eight, Mississippi ValleyBlack River FallsBlack River Falls, WIPublicTigers 1929–1938Little Eight, Mississippi ValleyMedfordMedford, WIPublicRaiders 1929–19443-CMondoviMondovi, WIPublicBuffaloes 1929–1938Bi-County, Mississippi ValleyNeillsvilleNeillsville, WIPublicWarriors 1929–19443-C, Little EightOwenOwen, WIPublicEagles 1929–1944CloverbeltStanleyStanley, WIPublicOrioles 1929–1944CloverbeltDurandDurand, WIPublicPanthers 1938Bi-County, Mississippi ValleyMosineeMosinee, WIPublicPapermakers 1939–1944Marathon County
Membership timeline
List of conference champions SchoolQuantityYearsMedford81929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1943Mosinee31939, 1942, 1944Stanley31935, 1937, 1940Arcadia21932, 1938Black River Falls21930, 1931Neillsville11934Augusta0Durand0Mondovi0Owen0 References