1887 Crescent Athletic Club football team
American college football season
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1887 Crescent Athletic Club football team represented the Crescent Athletic Club during the 1887 college football season. This season marked Crescent's first as a member of the American Football Union (AFU).[1] The team achieved an 8â1 record (6â0 against AFU opponents), won the AFU championship, and played its home games at the Crescent Athletic Club grounds located at Ninth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn. W. H. Ford served as the team captain and center rush.[1]
| 1887 Crescent Athletic Club football | |
|---|---|
AFU champion | |
| Conference | American Football Union |
| Record | 8â1 (6â0 AFU) |
| Captain | W. H. Ford |
| Home stadium | Crescent Athletic Club grounds |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Crescent Athletic Club $ | 6 | â | 0 | â | 0 | 7 | â | 1 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Athletic Club | 2 | â | 2 | â | 0 | 1 | â | 2 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Staten Island Cricket Club | 1 | â | 3 | â | 0 | 1 | â | 3 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unions of Columbia | 0 | â | 3 | â | 0 | 0 | â | 3 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In October 1887, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle described the club's origins and purpose: "The Crescent Club was formed not for the purpose of turning out celebrated athletes and winning prizes, but simply to provide exercise and recreation for its members. . . . The club is composed almost entirely of young men who are engaged in business and have not much time to devote to athletics, and the policy has always been to make it an inexpensive organization and to give the members as much for their money as possible."[1]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7 | Brooklyn Hill* |
| W 29â0 | [2] | |||
| October 22 | Union Club of Columbia |
| W 27â0 | [3] | |||
| October 29 | at Staten Island Cricket Club | Livingston,Staten Island, NY | W 16â1 | > 600 | [4] | ||
| November 5 | at New York Athletic Club |
| W 6â0 | 1,000 | [5] | ||
| November 8 | vs. Yale* | L 0â70 | [6] | ||||
| November 12 | Union Club of Columbia |
| W 6â0 | [citation needed] | |||
| November 12 | at New York Athletic Club |
| W 6â0 | [7][8] | |||
| November 26 | Staten Island Cricket Club |
| W 24â0 | [9] | |||
| December 17 | Alcyone* |
| W 32â0 | [10][11] | |||
| |||||||