Thursday, June 19, 2008

Hoboken FC 1912



Hoboken F.C. 1912. Hoboken, New Jersey. When men were men and the women were scairt. German athletes. German Merchant Marines. Organized the Germania Football Club. 1913-1914 season . Club initiates the first league games in the North Jersey Soccer League.


1916. New name. Hoboken Soccer Football Club 1912. Some name. The club won the championship of the North Jersey Soccer League in 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. Champions. In 1923 the club was one of the founding members of the German American Soccer League, now the Cosmopolitan Soccer League.


1928 and 1930. Hoboken F.C. wins the Staats-Herold Cup. 1931. Team wins the first German-American Cup over Phoenix Philadelphia. 1942 and 1943. Hoboken F.C. wins the New Jersey State Cup. Back to back.


1945. Club moves to North Bergen. End of story. Actually, not really end of story. But if it doesn't happen in Hoboken, I don't want to know about it.

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