Crescent A.C. Football Team, 1892. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle) |
Crescent Athletic Club of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
1883 11/11 ? Brooklyn Poly, at Prospect Park [Probably a different team] 1884 No Records (Practice Team only.] 1885 (7-1-0) . W 20-0 Picked Team 10/31 W 12-0 Brooklyn Poly [?] 11/3 L 0-44 Yale . W 28-0 Staten Island Cricket Club (Livingston) . W 15-0 S.I.C.C. [?] . W 8-6 Brooklyn Hills 11/14 W 10-4 Brooklyn Hills, at Washington Park (10-6?) 1886: 1/ ? C.C.N.Y. [?] 1/30 W 12-0 C.C.N.Y. [NOT Brooklyn Crescents. This was a CCNY Crescents team.] 1886 (~4-1-0) . W 16-0 Staten Island Cricket Club . W 20-0 Brooklyn Hills 10/30 W 26-0 Olympics A.C. 11/2 L 0-82 Yale 11/20 W 36-0 New York University (H) 12/11 postponed Unions of Columbia [pp.] 1887 (9-1-0) 10/8 W 20-0 Brooklyn Hills 10/15 W 1-0 (f) Crickets of Stevens [forfeit] (H) 10/22 W 27-0 Unions of Columbia College (H) 10/29 W 16-0 at S.I.C.C. 11/5 W 6-0 New York Athletic Club 11/8 L 0-68 Yale 11/12 W 6-0 N.Y.A.C. 11/26 W 24-0 S.I.C.C. 12/10 W N.Y.A.C. 12/17 W 32-0 Halcyone Boat Club [Alcyon?] (H) 1888 (6-2-0) 10/6 L 0-31 Princeton, at the Polo Grounds (#1) 10/13 W 52-0 N.Y.A.C. (H) 10/20 W 10-2 at S.I.C.C. 10/27 W 34-6 Orange A.C. 11/3 W 30-0 at N.Y.A.C., 11/6 L 0-28 Yale, at Washington Park (#1) 11/10 W (forf.) S.I.C.C. [forfeit] 11/29 W 25-0 Orange A.C. (for the Eagle Cup) American Football Union Champions! 2nds/Consolidated: 10/6 W (forf.) Alerts of N.Y. [forfeit] 10/20 W 18-0 Alerts of N.Y. 10/27 W 6-0 Flushing A.C. 11/3 W 6-4 Unions of Columbia College 11/6 W 12-0 Flushing A.C. 1889 (7-2-0) 10/5 W 30-0 Columbia, at Erastina, Staten Island 10/12 W 36-0 N.Y.A.C. (H) 10/19 W 44-0 at S.I.C.C., West Brighton 10/26 W 22-0 at Orange A.C., Orange Oval 11/2 W 48-0 at N.Y.A.C. 11/5 L 0-5 Yale (H), at Washington Park 11/9 W 78-0 S.I.C.C. (H), at Washington Park [Crescents only had 10 men, SICC only had 8.] 11/16 W 6-0 Orange A.C. (H) 11/20 L 0-18 Yale 11/22 ? Princeton American Football Union Champions!
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 13, 1921 |
1890 (~7-4-0) 9/27 W 62-0 Stevens Institute (H) 10/4 L 6-16 Yale, at Washington Park (#2) [6-18?] 10/11 not played Manhattan A.C., at Washington Park 10/18 L 0-12 Princeton, at Washington Park 3-4,000 10/25 W 36-0 at New York A.C., at the Polo Grounds (#2) 11/1 W 29-0 Columbia, Bay Ridge (H) att: 500 11/4 L 0-52 Yale, at Washington Park 6,000 11/8 L 5-8 at Orange A.C., Orange Oval 1,500/4,000 [Crescents dispute substitute ref's TD call] 11/15 W 40-8 N.Y.A.C., Washington Park [40-0?] 11/22 W 1-0(f) at S.I.C.C. [forfeit] 11/29 postponed Orange A.C. [postponed to 12/6] 11/29 W 10-0 at Cleveland A.A. 12/6 W 14-0 Orange A.C. (H) att: 600 [American Football Union championship] American Football Union Champions! Reserves: 10/25 W 12-0 at Westfield, NJ [11/25?] 11/1 L 0-68 at Rutgers, at College Field, New Brunswick 500 11/15 L 4-22 Dauntless F.C., at Prospect Park Parade Grounds 11/22 L 0-34 at Princeton Freshmen 1891 (5-3-0) 10/3 L 0-26 Yale (H), at Eastern Park 2,500 10/10 L 0-28 Princeton, at Eastern Park 3,000 10/17 W 42-0 Columbia, at Eastern Park 2,000 10/18? 10/24 W 36-6 Wesleyan, at Eastern Park 1,500 [86-6?] 10/31 W 10-0 Manhattan A.C., at Eastern Park 3,000 10/30? 11/3 L 0-70 Yale, at Eastern Park 5,600-6,000 (0-78?) 11/7 W 28-0 Orange A.C., at Eastern Park paid- 2,179 (3,000) 11/14 W 18-6 at N.Y.A.C., at the Polo Grounds (#3) 1,000 (for AFU championship) American Football Union Champions! 2nds: 10/24 W 20-0 Union AC of Jersey City (H), at Bay Ridge 3rds: 11/27 W 10-0 Adelphi Academy (Brooklyn) (H), at Bay Ridge 1892 (4-3-1) 10/6 W 10-0 at Stevens Institute, St. George Cricket Grounds,Hoboken att: 500-700 10/8 L 0-28 Yale (H), at Eastern Park 3,000 10/15 L 0-23 Penn, at Eastern Park 1,200 10/22 L 0-42 Princeton, at Eastern Park 3,000 10/29 W 14-0 at Orange A.C., Orange Oval 1,500-2,000 11/5 T 4-4 Chicago A.A., at Eastern Park 2,000 11/8 W 10-4 Wesleyan, at Eastern Park 2,042/3-4,000 11/9? 11/12 W 20-0 N.Y.A.C., at Eastern Park att: 500 [Champions of AFA, for Eagle Cup] American Football Union Champions! Juniors: 10/15 W 13-0 Emerald F.C., at Prospect Park [Juniors' 4th game] 10/22 W 16-0 at Brooklyn Navy Yard 10/29 W 14-0 at Englewood Field Club (N.J.) 11/8 W 10-0 Greene Avenue A.C., at Prospect Park [note: 6th game] 11/19 W 10-0 at Rutherford Wheelmen (N.J.) 1893 (3-7-0)) 10/4 L 8-10 Stevens Institute 10/7 L 0-16 Yale, at Eastern Park 10/10 W 16-0 Stevens Inst., at Eastern Park 10/14 L 0-26 Princeton, at Eastern Park 10/21 L 0-40 Penn, at Eastern Park 10/28 L 8-20 Union College (N.Y.), at Eastern Park 11/4 L 8-12 Boston A.A., at Eastern Park 11/7 W 4-0 Wesleyan 11/11 W 36-0 N.Y.A.C., at Eastern Park 11/18 L 4-20 Orange A.C., at Eastern Park 1894 (2-7-0) 10/6 L 0-10 Yale, at Eastern Park 10/10 L 0-22 at Penn 10/13 W 34-0 Stevens Inst., at Eastern Park 10/20 W 18-0 Penn, at Eastern Park 1,000-2,500 10/27 W 20-4 Rutgers, at Eastern Park 11/3 L 0-6 Amherst, at Eastern Park 1,200 11/6 L 0-22 Cornell, at Eastern Park 4,000 11/10 L 0-22 Boston A.A., at Eastern Park 1,000 11/17 L 8-16 at Orange A.C., Orange Oval (for Eagle Cup) Reserves: 11/23 ? Flushing A.C. (H), Bay Ridge 1895 (8-3-1) 9/28 W 14-0 Elizabeth A.C., at Eastern Park 10/5 W 28-0 N.Y. Military Academy, at Eastern Park [28-4, N.Y.A.C.?] 10/9 L 0-32 Penn, at Eastern Park 10/12 L 2-8 Yale, at Eastern Park 10/19 W 20-0 Amherst, at Eastern Park 10/26 W 43-0 Williams, at Eastern Park [43-0?] 11/2 W 28-0 N.J.A.C., at Eastern Park [40-0?] 11/5 W 16-0 Brown, at Eastern Park 11/9 T 0-0 Boston A.A., at Eastern Park 2,000 11/16 W by forf. Orange A.C. refuse to play [forfeit], at Eastern Park 11/16 W 14-0 Elizabeth A.C., at Eastern Park 11/28 L 0-10 at Orange A.C. Reserves: 11/2 T 4-4 at West Arlington, at Arlington, N.J. [No team 1896 to 1900, 1902 to 1908] 1901 10/12? T Willet's Point Engineers 10/26 L 0-11 at St. John's Institute, at Knickerbocker Field, Bayonne [May be diff. Crescents of N.J.] 1909 (3-0-0) 10/30 W 26-0 Erasmus Hall H.S. (H), at Bay Ridge Grounds 2,000 11/6 W 32-0 Spalding A.C. (H) [23-0?] 11/13 W 6-0 Stevens Institute (H) 1924 11/2 L 0-10 Glencoe F.C.
Home Fields:
•Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
•Washington Park (#2), Gowanus, Brooklyn
•Eastern Park, East New York, City of Brooklyn
•Offices- 66 Montague Street [Now a landmark building, it was built after the Crescents stopped playing football]
•The Crescent Athletic Club grounds in Bay Ridge were built on the site of the old Van Brunt Mansion, and today is the site of Fort Hamilton High School.
•From the 1890s, the Crescents would excel in lacrosse and ice hockey.
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