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1966 – 1981
In 1966 the Shamrocks moved with their peers into the Northern State Conference — into the same league as the new John Glenn Falcons, the rivalry the schools file records. The Walkerton Independent-News of 23 February 1967 shows the rivalry in its first season: North Liberty's Shamrocks beating the South Central Satellites 87–73 in a game the paper covered column by column, while the Falcons' own conference course ran in the same pages. The Shamrocks were still fielding teams in the mid-1970s, a fact the schools file uses to order the merger; and in 1981, on the conference table's telling, North Liberty left the Northern State Conference — "none (consolidated into Glenn)." No last game, last roster, or last coach is carried by a source read first-hand; they bank as named gaps, with Pearl's chronicle — which runs, on the sports-players file's citation, season by season from 1920-21 through 1980-81 — as the settler of first resort.