5-795: The Brooklyn Crescents , affiliated with the Crescent Athletic Club , were an American amateur ice hockey team from Brooklyn in New York City . The Brooklyn Crescents played in the American Amateur Hockey League in 1896–97 (the inaugural season) and between 1899 and 1918 and won nine championship titles, most in league history. The Crescents had several Canadian players on its team, among them Bob Wall, Bill Dobby and Arthur Liffiton from Montreal , Jimmy Shirreff from Brockville and James Sarsfield Kennedy from Barrie . Wall, Dobby and Kennedy joined
10-792: The St. Nicholas Rink in Manhattan . In January 1917 the team moved its operations to the Brooklyn Ice Palace at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn. Crescent Athletic Club The Crescent Athletic Club was an athletic club in Brooklyn . Founded by a group of Yale University alumni in 1884 as an American football club, it later expanded to include other sports, including baseball , lacrosse , ice hockey and basketball . The club had over 1,500 members in
15-740: The Crescents from the rivaling Brooklyn SC before the 1899–1900 season, while Liffiton joined from the same club for the 1901–02 season. Before moving to New York City both Bob Wall and Bill Dobby had played on the Montreal Shamrocks . The Brooklyn Crescents played their home games at the Clermont Avenue Skating Rink in Brooklyn, which they shared with fellow AAHL team the Brooklyn Skating Club , from 1896 until 1906. From 1906 to 1916 they played at
20-551: The early 20th century. The club's membership declined in the 20th century, and it filed for bankruptcy in 1939. The club also became an important social institution in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, hosting plays, dinners, dances, lectures, concerts, and minstrel shows. The club fielded a football team (known as the Brooklyn Crescents) that competed with the major collegiate and non-collegiate football teams in
25-483: The late 19th century, including Princeton , Yale , Penn , and the Orange Athletic Club . The team won American Football Union championships five consecutive years from 1888 to 1892. The Crescents played their football games at various locations including Washington Park and Eastern Park . The club also fielded a strong baseball club, also known as the Crescents. The club had an ice hockey team,
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