Later History
In 1971, the College of the Holy Cross joined the conference in football for only a year, and in 1974, The University of Vermont dropped its football program. In 1975 the conference dropped sponsorship of all sports except football, after which many schools outside its original New England base joined the league.
It existed until 1997, when NCAA legislation limiting the influence of single-sport conferences over policy became effective, and then merged with the Atlantic 10 Conference (A10).
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