1887 Brooklyn Hill Football Club season

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1887 Brooklyn Hills football
ConferenceIndependent
Head coach
  • William Halsey (2nd season)
CaptainWilliam Halsey (center rush)
Home stadiumParade Grounds, Prospect Park
Seasons
←  1886
1888 →

The 1887 Brooklyn Hill football team was an American football team that represented the Brooklyn Hill Football Club. Despite not being part of the American Football Union any longer, the Hills were still able to play a competitive schedule and compiled record of at least 0–3 against collegiate and semi-professional opponents. In their match against the Polytechnic Institute in March, the Hills team and a congregation from the Adelphi Academy combined to play the Polys, but still lost 20 to 4.

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Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
March 12Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
L 4–20 [1]
October 74:20 p.m.at Crescent Athletic Club
  • Crescent Athletic Club grounds
  • Brooklyn, NY
L 0–29 [2]
October 303:50 p.m.at Princeton Freshmen
L 0–48 [3] [4] [5]

1887 Brooklyn Heights Football Club schedule

Whether or not the Brooklyn Heights football club was a separate organization from the Brooklyn Hills team is unknown. There is some evidence though that points to the Heights team as being its own athletic club, and not just another way to describe the hills club, most notably the limited roster differences. Another solution is that the Brooklyn Heights team was a secondary squad for the more prominent Hills team, although no historical newspapers can substantiate this theory.

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
November 8nearly 11:00 a.m. Columbia Freshmen
W 4–0 [6] [7]
November 26Stevens Institute High School
  • Prospect Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
L 12–20 [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Football In Prospect Park". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 14, 1887. p. 6. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Crescent Wins at Football". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1887. p. 16. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Football Games". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 30, 1887. p. 9. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Death of Admiral Nicholson". The Brooklyn Citizen. October 29, 1887. p. 3. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Football At Washington Park". The Brooklyn Citizen. October 30, 1887. p. 10. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Yale's Easy Victory". The New York Times. November 9, 1887. p. 3. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Brooklyn Heights Victorious". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 9, 1887. p. 4. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Football Notes". The Sun. November 27, 1887. p. 15. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
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