Triangular Football League
{{Short description|Defunct American collegiate football conference}}
{{Infobox sports league
| name = Triangular Football League
| dissolved = 1901
| sports = College football
| formerly = Northern Intercollegiate Football Association (1885–1886)
Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (1887–1891)
New England Intercollegiate Football Association (1892)
}}
The Triangular Football League or New England Intercollegiate Football Association was an American college football conference. Its founding members were Dartmouth, Williams, and Amherst. The Triangular Football League was formed in 1892,{{cite news |author= |title=Favoring A New League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98112938/the-new-york-times/ |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, New York |date= May 26, 1892 |page=3 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} and was a successor organization to the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (1887–1891) and the Northern Intercollegiate Football Association (1885–1886).[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/conference_champs/champions.php?conid=525 Triangular Football League] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715170823/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/conference_champs/champions.php?conid=525 |date=July 15, 2014 }}, College Football Data Warehouse. MIT had been a member of the previous iterations as late as 1887, and Wesleyan became a member of the Triangular Football League by at least 1899.
Football champions
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- 1885 – {{cfb link|year=1885|team=Williams Ephs|title=Williams}}
- 1886 – Williams
- 1887 – {{cfb link|year=1887|team=MIT Engineers|title=MIT}}
- 1888 – Dartmouth and {{cfb link|year=1888|team=MIT Engineers|title=MIT}}
- 1889 – Dartmouth{{cite news |author= |title=Dartmouth Wins The Pennant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98084339/the-sun/ |newspaper=The Sun |location=New York, New York |date=November 29, 1889 |page=2 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
- 1890 – {{cfb link|year=1890|team=Williams Ephs|title=Williams}}
- 1891 – {{cfb link|year=1891|team=Williams Ephs|title=Williams}}{{cite news |author= |title=Williams Material |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98115152/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1891 |page=4 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
- 1892 – Amherst{{cite news |author= |title=Amherst Wins The New England Championship |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98118361/the-standard-union/ |newspaper=The Daily Standard Union |location=Brooklyn, New York |date=November 19, 1892 |page=8 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
- 1893 – Dartmouth{{cite news |author= |title=Won The Championship |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98126738/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 13, 1893 |page=5 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
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- 1894 – Dartmouth
- 1895 – Dartmouth
- 1896 – Dartmouth
- 1897 – Dartmouth
- 1898 – Dartmouth
- 1899 – {{cfb link|year=1899|team=Wesleyan Methodists|title=Wesleyan}}{{cite journal |author= |date=1901 |title=Football |url=https://acdc.amherst.edu/explore/asc:315284/asc:317984 |journal=Olio |publisher=Junior Class, Amherst College |volume= |issue= |pages=164 |doi= |access-date=April 11, 2021 }}
- 1900 – {{cfb link|year=1900|team=Wesleyan Methodists|title=Wesleyan}}{{cite journal |author= |date=1902 |title=Football |url=https://acdc.amherst.edu/explore/asc:319248/asc:321965 |journal=Olio |publisher=Junior Class, Amherst College |volume= |issue= |pages=160 |doi= |access-date=April 12, 2021 }}
- 1901 – {{cfb link|year=1901|team=Williams Ephs|title=Williams}}{{cite journal |author= |date=1903 |title=Football |url=https://acdc.amherst.edu/explore/asc:323662/asc:326377 |journal=Olio |publisher=Class of 1903, Amherst College |volume= |issue= |pages=159 |doi= |access-date=April 12, 2021 }}
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