MacMonigle's Blue Devils of Coney Island

Coney Island Blue Devils

Brooklyn Blue Devils (1929)

Historic Football Records

Ad from Brooklyn Eagle, Nov. 15, 1929: FOOTBALL • SUNDAY , 2:30 P.M. • Newark Bears • vs. • Brooklyn Blue Devils • COMMERCIAL FIELD • Albany and East New York Aves..

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 15, 1929

1925
 Home: Erasmus Field
10/4    ?          Port Richmond Yellow Jackets (H)
11/22  W 19-6      Company I, 14th Regiment, Flushing Armory (H)
11/26  W 20-0      Drake A.A. (H)
12/7   L  0-25     Carlisle A.C. of Stapleton  [as McMonigle's Democratic Club]   

1926
9/26   L  0-9   at Bayonne Vikings, City Park Oval
10/10  T  0-0   at All-Bridgeport Stars, Eastern League Ballpark
10/12   ?       at Paterson Elms
10/17  W 42-0      Company I, 14th Reg., Flushing Armory (H) (Seaside Park)  2,000
10/31  W  7-0      Philadelphia Pros (H)
11/1  canceled  at Staten Island Stapletons  10/21? 10/31?  
11/7   L  0-14  at Orange A.C. Tornadoes, Knights of Columbus Stadium 
11/21  W   7-6     Staten Island Indians (H)
11/25  T  0-0   at Graham Bears, Fairgrounds, Dongan Hills, Staten Island

1927
10/2    T  0-0  at College Point F.C., Ahrco Field
10/16   T  0-0  at Bayonne Vikings, Jersey City International Baseball Park  1,000
10/23  no game     Bayonne Vikings (H)
10/23   ?          Lyceum (H)
10/    W  6-0   at Bayonne Vikings, J.C. International Ballpark
10/30  no game     All-Bridgeport
10/30  T  6-6      Fordham Violets (H) Erasmus Field ["4th tie"]
11/6   T  0-0      Aqueducts of Bergen (H) 
11/13  W  7-0      All-Southern Colored Collegiates (H)
11/27  W 19-0      Polish-American A.C. (H)

1928
10/14  W 13-0      Bloomfield (H) Erasmus Field
.      L           Brooklyn Naval Base Hospital  1927?
11/11  L  0-6      Southern Collegians, Erasmus Field (H)
11/18   ?          East Side Tigers, Erasmus Field (H)
11/25  W 12-6      Fort Slocum, Erasmus Field (H)

1929 Home Field: Commercial Field, Brooklyn
10/20   ?          All-Southern Collegiates (H)
10/27  W 26-6      Atlantic City Pros (H)
11/3    ?          Paterson Club
11/9   W 20-0      College Point Ramblers (H) 2,000  11/10?
11/17   ?          Newark Bears (H)
11/    no game     Staten Island Stapes  ?  
12/1   L  7-13     Wessington All-Stars [Eddie Tryon's Wessington All-Stars]
Blue Devil Juniors:
11/29  W 16-14     Rangers, Wingate Memorial Field      

1930
.      W 6-0       Elizabeth Collegians
.      T  0-0      Mamaronack
10/26  T  0-0   at College Point F.C.
11/9   L  7-13  at Bay Parkways, Erasmus Field
11/23  L  6-7      Astoria Willows at Recreation Park, Long Island City
11/27  L  0-6      College Point F.C.
12/7    ?       at Bay Parkways


1933
11/8   L  0-13  at Elmhurst Yellow Jackets (night)
11/12  L  0-24     Itam Democratic Club of Astoria 1,700

•While George Mac Monigle's Blue Devils of Coney Island were called the Brooklyn Blue Devils by teams in New Jersey for years, the name was not officially changed to this until part way into the 1929 season.
•There were plans for a Metropolitan Professional Football League planned for 1930.
•The Brooklyn Giants would join the Newark Bears, the Orange A.C., Bayonne Vikings, Staten Island Stapes and Eddie Tryon's Wessingtons in formng the new league. The M.F.L. was not to be, the N.F.L. Brooklyn Dodgers would begin play in 1930.

Coney Island Red Devils

1924
10/12  L  6-13  at Baldwin Buccaneers

Many games are obviously not found yet and will be added if and when they are.