List of East Penn Conference football champs, 1976-2001, and more

FROM KEITH GROLLER

After what I posted a few days ago, some of the Groller's Corner readers requested information from the old East Penn Conference. It will take some time to compile the win-loss records for the period between 1976-1997 when most area teams were in the EPC. I do hope to do that at some point and post those numbers here. We have them, it'll just take time..

As for the EPC champions when it was at least a 10-team league (1976-97), the totals:

Dieruff 5 (2 shared)

Whitehall 5 (3 shared)

Phillipsburg 5 (3 shared)

Central Catholic 4 (0 shared) -- plus 1 more EPC title in the 5-team league from 1998-2001

Easton 4 (1 shared)

Becahi 3 (0 shared) -- plus 3 more EPC titles in the 5-team league from 1998-2001

Parkland 1 (0 shared)

Emmaus 1 (1 shared)

Remember, Phillipsburg and Northampton left the league before the mass exodus after the 1997-98 school year. And remember, Nazareth was in the Colonial League, not the the EPC during this period.

Combine all the EPC/LVC/MVC/Colonial titles of the current Lehigh Valley Conference schools from 1976-2010 -- which again features that four-year split -- and here's how they rank:

1. Easton 8 titles (3 shared)

T2. Nazareth 7 title (3 shared) --- *six titles came as a member of the Colonial League.

T2. Parkland 7 titles (1 shared);

T2. CCHS 7 titles (1 shared)

T5. Becahi 6 titles (0 shared)

T5. Whitehall 6 titles (3 shared)

T7. Dieruff 5 titles (2 shared)

T7. Phillipsburg 5 titles (3 shared)

9. Liberty 2 titles (0 shared).

T10. Northampton 1 title (1 shared)

T10. Emmaus 1 title (1 shared)

Allen and Freedom have no league titles, but Allen did win a district crown in 1992. Nazareth and Northampton were co-champs in the MVC during the period when it included mostly Monroe County teams.

Here is the year-by-year, complete list of the EPC champs, and I've also included the Mountain Valley champs from the inception of that league, and you can easily see how the former EPC (and future LVC) schools dominated in their four-year stint in the MVC.

EAST PENN CONFERENCE

2001: Bethlehem Catholic

2000: Bethlehem Catholic

1999: Bethlehem Catholic

1998: Central Catholic

1997: Central Catholic

1996: Parkland

1995: Central Catholic

1994: Central Catholic

1993: Central Catholic

1992: Dieruff

1991: Easton

1990: Phillipsburg

1989: Bethlehem Catholic

1988: Bethlehem Catholic

1987: Easton

1986: Easton/Whitehall

1985: Bethlehem Catholic

1984: Phillipsburg

1983: Whitehall/Phillipsburg

1982: Whitehall/Phillipsburg

1981: Dieruff/Emmaus/Whitehall

1980: Dieruff

1979: Dieruff

1978: Easton

1977: Dieruff/Phillipsburg

1976: Whitehall

MOUNTAIN VALLEY CONFERENCE CHAMPS

2010: Pleasant Valley/ES South

2009: East Stroudsburg South

2008: East Stroudsburg South

2007: Pocono Mountain West

2006: East Stroudsburg South

2005: Stroudsburg/East Stroudsburg South

2004: Stroudsburg/East Stroudsburg South/Pleasant Valley

2003: East Stroudsburg South

2002: Lehighton

2001: Easton

2000: Parkland

1999: Parkland

1998: Whitehall

1997: Lehighton/Nazareth/Northampton

1996: East Stroudsburg

1995: East Stroudsburg

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