Brooklyn Skating Club
The Brooklyn Skating Club was an amateur ice hockey team from Brooklyn in New York City. The Brooklyn Skating Club played in the American Amateur Hockey League between 1896 and 1906 and won the championship title in 1898–99.
History
The ice hockey team of the Brooklyn Skating Club played its home games at the Clermont Avenue Skating Rink in Brooklyn which they shared with fellow AAHL team Brooklyn Crescents.In the 1897–98 season the Brooklyn Skating Club played in light blue colors with "S. C. B." in white letters on their sweaters.
The Brooklyn Skating Club won the 1898–99 AAHL championship on February 21, 1899, after having defeated the New York Hockey Club 7 goals to 0. The roster was made out partly by Americans and partly by Canadians, the two most instrumental players being former Montreal Shamrocks players Bob Wall and Bill Dobby who had played with the Shamrocks in the AHAC.
Before the 1899–1900 season most players on the Brooklyn Skating Club joined its local rival the Brooklyn Crescents, and the team abruptly ceased being a contender for the league championship title.
Tom Howard, Stanley Cup champion with the 1896 Winnipeg Victorias, played one league game for the club during the 1905–06 before the club ceased operations. At the onset of the 1905–06 season Howard tried to acquire a group of Canadian players, among them Ernie "Moose" Johnson, Frank "Pud" Glass and Horace Gaul to the club, in an attempt to ramp up the playing quality of the team, but the AAHL rules committee ruled the Canadians ineligible to play with the American club on counts of professionalism, and the Brooklyn Skating Club ice hockey team ceased its operations two games into the seasons.