Suburban One League , often abbreviated "SOL" is an athletic conference in Southeastern Pennsylvania, serving secondary schools in Montgomery County and Bucks County. The League was founded in 1922 as the "Suburban League." Since its inception, SOL has produced many districts, states, and even some national championships. It also produced some great athletes, probably no more famous than Baseball Hall of Fame, Reggie Jackson.
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History
Initial years for World War II
The Suburban One League is currently the direct descendant of the Suburban Philadelphia High School Athletic Association, or the Suburban League as it became popularly known. The first sport in which the Suburban League competed was basketball in 1922-23. Eleven schools, eight from Delaware County and three from Montgomery County, made up the league first season. Three of the schools, Abington, Cheltenham, and Norristown, remain members of the Suburban One League to this day. Media High School, which closed in 1966, was the first basketball champion. Other schools participating in the first season are Chester, Darby, Lansdowne, Lower Merion, Radnor, Ridley Park, Swarthmore, and Upper Darby. The starting point of the season's first season, located on page 5 of January 11, 1923 of The Chester Times, confirms that this is the only 11 schools in the basketball league in 1922-23.
In the autumn of 1923, the Suburban League added football, although more than a quarter of a century would pass before the round-robin schedule was attempted. Almost all the Suburban League football champions until after the unofficial World War II were chosen either by the points system or by the sound of journalists covering the schools.
Already, in its second year of existence, the Suburban League is divided into Parts A and Section B, divided approximately by school size. Only in the 1923-24 basketball season, post-season playoffs determine the overall champion. Since then, the league has crowned champions in every part, conference or division without a league-wide playoff. In the 2014-15 season, the Suburban One League held a post-season tournament, in men's and women's basketball only, to determine overall league champions, although that was in addition, rather than a substitute, regular season title conference.
Over time, as more high schools opened in suburban Philadelphia, more schools joined the Suburban League. Chester County had its first representative in 1924; In 1932, six schools from the region became members. Also in 1932, the basketball league had been divided into four sections; in 1940, the Suburban League had six parts. In the 1944-45 to 1946-47 seasons, the Suburban League reached its peak when 37 schools in six divisions competed in the school's three-year basketball.
Different newspapers use a variety of brief expressions to refer to the separate parts of the league; from time to time, the most common nomenclature becomes "Suburban One," "Suburban Two," "Suburban Three" and so on. This abbreviation style is the origin of the Suburban One League name at this time, though for years it remains until the league will resemble the current format.
Post-war growth and contraction
Football is slower to start in the Suburban League. In 1948, after a quarter-century of unofficial league play, the four largest schools - Abington, Chester, Haverford and Lower Merion - agreed to schedule each other, with the winners of the round-robin competition to receive official recognition as the Suburban Section A champion. Abington, Chester and Lower Merion all ended the league season with a 2-1 record and were declared tri-winners. It was not until 1956 that schools in smaller schools agreed to form stand-alone parts with a round-robin schedule.
The first significant rift in the Philadelphia High School Athletic Association in 1950. With the blessing of the remaining members, eight schools from Chester and Montgomery district went to form their own independent association known as the Ches-Mont League. At that time, the basketball league shrank from six parts to four; will then fall into three parts in 1955-56 before returning to the four parts in 1959-60. Newly opened high schools were accepted throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in the school year 1965-66, the Suburban League had almost as many members as the post-World War II peak with 35 competing schools.
The consolidation of state-mandated school districts reduced league membership to 31 in 1966-67. On 28 May 1966, another bomb fell: Without warning, nine schools, mostly along the Main Line, announced that they were leaving the Suburban League to start the Central League. Unlike when the Ches-Mont schools went, the movement was highly controversial and unpopular; some Suburban League schools threaten a boycott. The last season that Central League schools in the future are in the Suburban League is uncomfortable.
With the departure of Central League schools, the Suburban League completed the rearrangement of important parts that had begun in the early 1960s. For the academic year 1967-68, every Montgomery County school was moved to Suburban One; larger Delaware County schools are located in Suburban Two; and smaller Delaware County schools competed in Suburban Three. The result is that, over the next decade, schools in Suburban One acted more independently than their Suburban Two and Suburban Three counterparts, although, at least in theory, the three parts were still under the same umbrella organization, which came to be known as The Athletic Association of Philadelphia's Suburban Schools. Also, in the academic year 1971-72, the Suburban League was extended to Bucks County for the first time when William Tennent High School joined Suburban One after leaving the Lower Bucks League.
Finally, in the fall of 1978, the increasing rift between Suburban One and Suburban Two/Three resulted in Delaware County schools leaving the organization and forming the Del-Val League. What remains of the formerly powerful Suburban League is ten schools, its smallest membership to date. Nine of them are in Montgomery County, and another in Bucks County. The remaining schools retain the name of Suburban One, although the league no longer has any reason to define itself numerically.
New expansion and growing pain
Even before the departure of schools in Delaware County, Suburban One began to reinvent itself. When schools in Montgomery County were grouped together in 1967, their different sizes did not matter much. But in 1977, it was no longer true. In football alone, the Suburban One school is divided into the National Conference of the five largest schools and the smallest five American Conference. In every other sport, Suburban One remains part of 10 single teams (or fewer, depending on the number of schools in a particular sport). After Springfield while remaining in 1980, the league fell to an all-time low of nine members.
With the addition of seven schools, most simultaneously in league history up to that time, Suburban One grew to 16 schools for 1982. Six of the new members were once the dead Bottom Bucks League; the other is one of the smaller schools in the burgeoning Bux-Mont League, attracted by two SOL semi-independent conferences based on school size. National conferences for major schools and the American Conference for smaller schools were institutionalized in all sports in 1982-1983.
Four years later, a previously shrunken league suddenly found itself with 24 members, most since 1977. Nine more schools from Bucks and Montgomery County, seven from former Bux-Mont League and two from the Bicentennial Athletic League, became members of Suburban One. The league is further divided: The 12-team National Conference now has six teams of the Patriot Division, for the most part, the six largest schools, and the six-team Colonial Division. The American Conference is divided into the larger Liberty Division and the smaller Freedom Division. By its own size, the Suburban One League is once again the most important of the leagues in all of Philadelphia's suburbs.
The integration of so many new schools with a long history is not without difficulty. The biggest complaint among the newcomers, especially the former members of the Bux-Mont League, is the breakdown of traditional rivalry for decades at the altar of alignment by the population. Some compromises were made in the early years of the new league; for example, for several years, North Penn, who, by its size should have been in the Patriot Division, was allowed to compete in the Colonial Division against some of its old rivals. But in 1992, the rest of the league rebelled against this arrangement, and Penn North was transferred to the Patriot Division with schools from the former Lower Bucks League.
Football is very problematic with the format of four new divisions. In addition to the round-robin within their own divisions, each school played three of the six schools in the other divisions of their conference, which sometimes caused confusion as to which game was counted in the league standings. It also creates an unbalanced schedule, in which one school can have an easier cross-division schedule than any other school.
The "Power 10" and continuous rearrangement
After several years of complaints about football schedules, the Suburban One League turned into three independent divisions in 1991. Unlike in other sports, some considerations for a competitive balance are considered when deciding on alignment. But the most significant change is creating a National Conference of ten schools for the largest and most competitive schools in SOL. It did not take long for this conference to become known as "Strength 10."
Arguably, "Power 10" is the best high school soccer conference in Pennsylvania for 10 years of its existence (1991-2000). This is of course the most widely decorated, because four times, the National Suburban One National champion won the PIAA Class AAAA. The fourth time, including three years in a row, the West Central Bucks is the champion. Bucks actually won or shared the 10-year "Power 10" crown of its existence, but many of its league matches were tougher than playoffs.
The three-division format for football ended in 2001.
Meanwhile, Suburban One League maintains a four-division format in most other sports, depending on the number of schools competing. In all sports, the league chooses to straighten its split every two years, along with the reclassification of PIAA's two-year school. Although it only happens every year, it still causes confusion.
Changed to three divisions
Since it was first implemented in 1986, the two-conferencing format, the four-division is not very popular. Finally, in 2004, the Suburban One League dumped it for the sake of three semi-independent conferences. The name of the National Conference remains for the largest schools; The American Conference is still home to smaller SOL schools. For the schools in the middle, a new Continental Conference was created. With the opening of Central Bucks High School South, the league is now in 25 schools, 24 for football, made for two eight school conferences and one school with nine schools. The rearrangement also ended the cross division match between divisions.
But the league is still organizing itself every two years, even with new conferencing arrangements.
The rapid increase in travel costs finally ended the strict alignment of the student population in 2007. In contrast, Suburban One grouped three conferences based on geography and tradition. The National Conference became home to the schools and their successors who once formed the Lower Bucks League, with the addition of Abington. The Continental Conference is a rough equivalent of the former Bux-Mont League. The American Conference is similar to the 1970s version of the Suburban One League.
The Suburban One League has kept this alignment intact in almost all sports since 2007, marking the longest period of stability in its history.
For football alone, 2014 looks back at the conference structure based on the student population, with all the larger schools in National, Continental high schools, and smaller in America.
Effective in the academic year 2016-2017, Norristown, one of the schools that competed for the Suburban League's first league title in the 1922-23 season, and Upper Merion, a Suburban League member since 1933, will leave the Suburban One League for the Pioneer Athletic Conference. At that time, SOL will have 22 schools, the smallest membership since the 1985-86 school year.
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SOL today
The Suburban One League today is a member of District 1, which is a compilation of other public schools in Chester, Montgomery, Bucks, and Delaware counties. In many cases, each school only plays a school in their conference. However, there are several inter-conference games due to historical competition, such as the Abington-Cheltenham competition, which plays every year on Thanksgiving Day. Founding school thick. Each year the first school competes in the Suburban League or Suburban One League following the nickname of the school.
Current School in One League Suburbs
Suburban One League Sports where every school in the league includes teams - soccer, men's and women's basketball, boys and girls, men's and women's tracks, golf, field hockey, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, and wrestling - will feature conferences in this alignment starting in autumn 2016:
league 22 schools effective in 2018-1919
On May 2, 2017, elected to straighten out the Suburban One League into the following alignment for the academic year 2018-19.
Previous alignment
2008-2016
The alignment of the Suburban One League conference before the Norristown and Upper Merion decisions to join the Pioneer Athletic Conference (PAC) begins in the autumn of '16. It should be noted that Springfield did not participate in SOL during the academic years 2010-11 and 2011-12, but returned during the 2012-13 academic year.
For football only, conferences are thus parallel:
National Conference : Abington, Bensalem, South Central Bucks, Neshaminy, North Penn, Pennridge, Pennsbury, Souderton
Konferensi Continental : Bucks Tengah Timur, Bucks Tengah Barat, Council Rock North, Council Rock South, Harry S. Truman, Norristown, Quakertown, William Tennent
Konferensi Amerika : Cheltenham, Hatboro-Horsham, Plymouth-Whitemarsh, Springfield, Upper Dublin, Upper Merion, Moreland Atas, Wissahickon
2006-07
The alignment of the League One Suburban conference before Methacton's decision to resign and join the Pioneer Athletic Conference (PAC) began in the fall of '08.
2004-2006
Alignment of Suburban One League conference with Central Bucks South reception.
Sports
Featured Athlete
Every week, SOL officials picked one superior male and female athlete that week. Every athlete answers some questions, such as favorite athletes, most memorable moments, etc. In addition to articles about athletes' achievements, written by a SOL writer.
PIAA Champions
The following is a list of the PIAA champions of the Suburban One League
* Before the Separated Stone Hall to North and South in 2002
SOL Code of Conduct
Perhaps the most important goal of SOL is for athletes to respect each other, coaches, officials, and games. SOL creates a "Code of Conduct" for "the interest of sustainable good relations in the field of athletics". The Code of Conduct is often hung in or around high school.
1. Show their respect for their country by standing attentively and removing the hat when the American flag passes and during play and sing the Anthem.
2. Show their respect by standing up for Alma Maters from both schools.
3. Implement themselves as women and men at all times, showing respect to visit players and injuring athletes, by not mocking participants in the play area, and by respecting the property.
4. Show respect to game officials and refrain from scorning their decisions or interfere with their control over the contest.
5. Know that indecent and indecent behavior is unacceptable.
6. Cheer under the guidance of organized cheerleaders. Cheers to disturb the opponent's cheers are unacceptable. Foot stamping in the stands should be eliminated.
7. Know that noise makers and signs in gymnasiums or in every indoor game are not acceptable.
8. Recognize the trash, throw confetti or paper, and throw objects into the play area is unacceptable.
9. Support music groups for indoor activities. However, such groups must be organized, sponsored schools, and supervised to play just before the game and during part time.
10. Food and drink are in the designated area. Gymnasium and swimming pool areas are not acceptable for food and beverage consumption.
11. Follow the code of conduct to promote good sportsmanship, adult, and students.
See also
The Interscholastic Pennsylvania Athletic Association
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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