1886 Brooklyn Hill Football Club season

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1886 Brooklyn Hills football
Conference American Football Union
Record3–5–3 (0–1–2 AFU)
Head coach
  • William Halsey (1st season)
CaptainWilliam Halsey (halfback)
Home stadium Prospect Park, Crescent Athletic Club grounds
Seasons
← 1885
1887 →
1886 American Football Union standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Crickets of Stevens Institute $ 3 –0 –04 –1 –0
Staten Island Football Club 1 –2 –22 –3 –3
Unions of Columbia 1 –2 –01 –3 –0
Brooklyn Hill 0 –1 –23 –5 –3
Cutler School 0 –0 –0– –– ––
Spartan Harriers 0 –0 –0– –– ––

The 1886 Brooklyn Hills football team was an American football team that represented the Brooklyn Hill Football Club who had been playing football since at least the year prior, [1] [2] in the American Football Union during the 1886 football season. Coached and captained by William Halsey, notable halfback, captain, and secretary of the fledgling American Football Union, the Hills compiled a 3–5–3 (of games confirmed), and finished 0–1–2 in AFU play before resigning from the Union on November 16 due to a lack of league games scheduled for Saturday and an inability to complete the rest of their conference schedule. [3] The Brooklyn Hills were also not allowed to claim their forfeit win against the Unions of Columbia, as an AFU meeting on the same day confirmed. It is unclear whether or not Brooklyn Hill claimed a win on October 16 against the Crickets of Stevens Institute, with the referee deferring to the AFU, who either never resolved the issue or did so quietly.

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Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 10 Crickets of Stevens Institute *
L 6–22 [4]
October 15 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn *
  • Parade Grounds, Prospect Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
T 0–0 [5]
October 164:00 p.m.Crickets of Stevens Institute
  • Parade Grounds, Prospect Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
L 6–8 (10–8 disputed) [6] [7]
October 23 Crescent Athletic Club *
  • Crescent Athletic Club grounds
  • Brooklyn, NY
L 0–20 [8] [9]
October 30 Staten Island Football Club
T 6–6 [10] [11] [12]
November 4Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn*
W 28–0 [13] [14]
November 6 Unions of Columbia *
  • Crescent Athletic Club grounds
  • Brooklyn, NY
W (forfeit) [15]
November 63:40 p.m. Yale Freshmen *
  • Crescent Athletic Club grounds
  • Brooklyn, NY
L 0–18 [16]
November 11at Hasbrouck Institute*
W 14–0 [17]
November 13at Staten Island Football Club
  • St. George Cricket Grounds
  • Staten Island, NY
T 0–0 [18] [19] [20]
November 20at Princeton Freshmen * Princeton, NJ L 11–66 or 11–68 [21] [22] [23]
November 27 Amherst *
  • Crescent Athletic Club grounds
  • Brooklyn, NY
Proposed [24] [25]
Yale FreshmenProposed [26]
  • *Non-conference game

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References

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  2. ↑ "A Foot Ball Game: The Crescent Athletic Club Whitewashes the Brooklyn Hills". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 24, 1886. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Sporting Notes". The Brooklyn Union. November 18, 1886. p. 2. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Two Football Games". The New York Times. October 10, 1886. p. 7. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ "City And Suburban News". The New York Times. October 16, 1886. p. 8. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Football Notes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
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  9. ↑ "A Foot Ball Game: The Crescent Athletic Club Whitewashes the Brooklyn Hills". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 24, 1886. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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  11. ↑ "Kicking Football". The New York Times. October 31, 1886. p. 14. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
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  13. ↑ "Football Notes". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1886. p. 1. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Football". The Brooklyn Union. November 5, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Football Notes". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1886. p. 1. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Victors At Football". The New York Times. November 7, 1886. p. 7. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
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