The Triangular Football League was an American college football

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 conference. Its founding members were Dartmouth

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, Williams College, and Amherst College. The Triangular Football League was formed in 1892, and was a successor organization to the Northeast Intercollegiate League (1891–1892), the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (1887–1890), and the Northern Intercollegiate Football Association (1885–1886). MIT

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 had been a member of the previous incarnations as late as 1887, and Wesleyan University

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became a member of the Triangular Football League by at least 1899.