Announcement
The UCAL and MHAL List of Champions
Posted by Philip Dusenbury on
Aug 19 2003
at
05:00PM PDT
By FEARLESS PHIL
Rising from the aftermath of World War II, organized high school football in Ulster County solidified itself in the form of the Ulster County Athletic League (UCAL).
Researcher and Section Nine stat man Rich Michaelis of New Paltz says that the Huguenots were playing touch football back in 1946 against the likes of Kerhonkson (later Rondout Valley) and Maybrook (later a part of Valley Central). From 1947 to 1953 the teams played one another in six-man football.
After a year of playing both six-man and 11-man, 1955 saw New Paltz involved in an all 11-man schedule. Two years later (1957) saw a loosely confederated, five-team "Ulster County League" which included New Paltz, Kerhonkson (which would soon be Rondout), Onteora, Wallkill and Marlboro. Apparently there were no official league standings that first year.
In 1957 the first of 34 years of champions would be proclaimed. Liberty, Ellenville, Pine Bush, Highland, Red Hook and Saugerties would also join the league. In 1980 the league changed its name to the Mid-Hudson Athletic League (MHAL).
Here are the champs:
UCAL
1957 - Onteora
1958 - Onteora & New Paltz (tie)
1959 - New Paltz
1960 - New Paltz/Rondout Valley/Onteora (tie)
1961 - New Paltz
1962 - Liberty
1963 - Liberty
1964 - Onteora
1965 - Highland
1966 - Highland
1967 - Rondout
1968 - Rondout
1969 - Pine Bush
1970 - Highland
1971 - Highland
1972 - Ellenville
1973 - Wallkill
1974 - Red Hook
1975 - Wallkill/Rondout/Pine Bush (tie)
1976 - Wallkill
1977 - New Paltz
1978 - Rondout
1979 - Marlboro
MHAL
1980 - New Paltz
1981 - Ellenville
1982 - Ellenville
1983 - Marlboro
1984 - Marlboro
1985 - Marlboro
1986 - Rondout
1987 - Rondout
1988 - Red Hook/Onteora (tie)
1989 - Onteora
1990 - Saugerties
In 1991 the section set up five divisions: Division I (Class A); II and III (Class B); IV (Class C); V (Class D). The MHAL teams went into divisions III and IV.
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