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MWC Centennial Celebration Member Spotlight – Ripon College

RIPON, Wis. — Ripon's first-ever recorded intercollegiate sports contest was held in 1882, a football game with Lawrence College ending in a 2-1 Ripon victory. The next event of which there is a written record was again with Lawrence in 1889, described as "the first annual all-day track and field meet." Football with the neighboring college was resumed in 1891 thus establishing what has become one of the oldest continuous sports rivalries in the Midwest and is in fact the oldest college football rivalry in the state of Wisconsin. Basketball competition came into the picture in 1898.