Little 7 Conference

The first track meet was at St. Charles (spring 1922), won by Wheaton, led by Harold E. "Red" Grange in his senior year.

Batavia dropped its football program in 1934, but after three years, the Bulldogs (which were then called the Vikings) returned to the gridiron.

“WeGo” previously held conference rivalries before as part of the Bi-County League during World War I.

St. Charles was beginning to feel the added enrollment and was forced to find a conference that kept the Saints on a similar playing field.

In the fall of 1965, St. Charles left their rivals to the south, Batavia and Geneva, behind and joined the Upstate Eight Conference after 44 seasons in the Little 7.

That fall, Plainfield High School filled the void left by St. Charles by joining the Little 7 from the Fox Valley Conference.

With Morris Community High School joining the Little 7 Conference in the fall of 1973, intense football rivalries jumped a notch thanks to the historic Redskin program.

In 1975, West Chicago bolted after 39 years for the newly formed DuPage Valley Conference.

The Wildcats won their only football state championship in their final season in the Little 7, but has struggled to keep up with the powerful DVC, only finishing above .500 once since 1982.

In the fall of that year, two teams were added to help fill the void left behind by the Warriors.

Minooka High School bolted the now-defunct Northeast Conference to help deal with a local population surge and to pair up with natural rivalries with Morris, Oswego and Plainfield.

Yorkville High School, feeling its own enrollment growth, joined the LSC from the Interstate Eight Conference.

The final alignment of the league is shown below with only Batavia, Geneva, and Sycamore as members for the entire history of the conference.

With divisions based on enrollment and not geography, the camaraderie that the Little 7 enjoyed struggled to take hold in the new SPC.

As the league struggled to return to a geographic based set up, conference officials found an old problem.

Following the departure of legendary Viking coach Jerry Auchstetter, the Bulldogs snapped the streak with a 13-6 victory in 1986.

Geneva made the playoffs in 1992 falling in the 2nd round to conference-rival Oswego while the Panthers were on their way to the school's first state championship.

The Vikings shutout Morris for the first time in 30 years to open the 2006 season en route to the Class 6A Semifinals, but fellat home to Batavia in the only playoff meeting between the schools.

Around that time in the late 1980s with Geneva's program slipping to the middle of the pack, Oswego emerged as the Redskins chief rival.

Long-time Oswego head coach Karl Hoinkes, now at Yorkville, helped the Foxes to their first win at Morris in 50 years in 2012.

Other rivalries included, Sycamore and Kaneland, Naperville and Wheaton, and briefly Minooka and Morris.

With the Saints departure to the Upstate Eight in 1965, those rivalries subsided a bit while Geneva and Batavia flourished.

Lance Broderson left as Waubonsie's all-time leading scorer and the high flying Warriors posted 94 points on Batavia in a meeting in 1989.

The Bulldogs used a roster with multiple Division-I prospects to reach the state quarterfinals, falling to Marshall from Chicago, a team featured in the documentary Hoop Dreams with star guard Arthur Agee.

Conference sports mentioned in the records examined included football, basketball, track, and baseball, and (beginning perhaps in 1958–59) wrestling and golf.

The introduction of wrestling as a conference sport was discussed as early as March 1956, but no action was taken at that time.