Fort Terry Football
(Plum Island, New York)
(1898-1948)

(incomplete)

Fort Terry

1905
10/8   L  0-21  at All-Waterbury, on the Rye Lots
11/7   W 10-4   at Greenport High School, at Greenport Drive Park
11/19  L  0-22  at All-Waterbury, at Riverside Park
11/28    ?         Greenport High School

1906
9/30   W  5-0      Fort H.G. Wright
10/7   L  0-33  at All-Waterbury

1908
10/31  W  6-0      Fort Michie

1909
.      T           Fort H.G, Wright

1913
9/30   L  0-13  at Fort H.G. Wright

1914
11/21  W 15-0      Fort H.G. Wright, at Plant Field

1915
10/10   ?       at New Haven team

1917
10/24   ?          Fort H.G. Wright
11/29   ?          Camp Devins  at Stamford

1919
10/29  L  0-38     Submarine Base (Norwich) (H)

1941 242nd Coast Artillery
10/5   T  6-6   at Meriden Trojans, at St. Stanislaus Field  1,500
10/12  W  7-6      Stratford Rams
10/19  W 29-0   at Wallingford Walcos, at Walco Park, Meriden
10/26  W 39-0      Fairfield Tigers
11/2   L  0-27  at St. Mary's Golden Bears (pro), at Dorothy Deming Field, Pittsfield,Mass.
11/16    ?      at Meriden Trojans, at Ceppa Field
11/30  W  7-0   at Stratford Rams
         Army Football Championship of New England
12/6   W  7-0      Camp Edwards 208th Anti-Aircraft Battery (Mass.), at the Yale Bowl  15,000
     Battery G
11/16  L 13-26  at Wethersfield CSP Trojans (Conn.)

Notes:
	• Fort Terry was a military installation, from 1897, on Plum Island, off of Orient Point on the North Fork of Long Island, New York. It closed as a military base circa 1948.
	• The grounds also had a functional 36" gauge railroad built in 1914. The Porter locomotive was used to haul munitions from bunkers to the 11 artillery batteries.
	• Part of a coastal defense that included 3 other installations, Fort H.G. Wright on Fishers Island between Long Island and Connecticut, Fort Michie on Great Gull Island also in Long Island Sound, and Camp Hero at Montauk Point.
	• Part of the 11^th Coast Artillery Regiment from November 1924.
	• From 1952 to 1969, it was used for Biological Warfare research by the Army and by the U.S.D.A. (animal disease research from 1954). The Plum Island Animal Disease Center closed in 2005.

Notes:

• Fort Terry was a military installation, from 1897, on Plum Island, off of Orient Point on the North Fork of Long Island, New York. It closed as a military base circa 1948.

• The grounds also had a functional 36" gauge railroad built in 1914. The Porter locomotive was used to haul munitions from bunkers to the 11 artillery batteries.

• Part of a coastal defense that included 3 other installations, Fort H.G. Wright on Fishers Island between Long Island and Connecticut, Fort Michie on Great Gull Island also in Long Island Sound, and Camp Hero at Montauk Point.

• Part of the 11^th Coast Artillery Regiment from November 1924.

• From 1952 to 1969, it was used for Biological Warfare research by the Army and by the U.S.D.A. (animal disease research from 1954). The Plum Island Animal Disease Center closed in 2005.

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Fort Terry Football (Plum Island, New York) (1898-1948)

Fort Terry Football
(Plum Island, New York)
(1898-1948)