Miller Field Football Records

New Dorp, Staten Island

1924
Miller Field Tank Corp
Oct. 14	L 0-6	Home	Fort Jay
Nov. 1	L 0-54	Home	Camp Vail
27th Division Air Service, NY National Guard, Miller Field
Nov. 15	?	Home	7^th Regiment, NY National Guard, at Aviation Field





1925
Miller Field Aviation
Oct. 18	no game	Away	HQ Troop, 1st NY National Guard Cavalry (Troop F), Staten Island
Miller Field Army
Nov. 15	L 7-13	Away?	New Dorp AC [benefit] 7-12?





1926
Sep. 28	pract.	Away	Curtis High School ["practice game"]
Nov. 6	L 0-26	Away	Curtis HS, at Thompson Stadium
Nov. 17	T	Home	Fort Wadsworth
Nov. 22	L 0-6	Away	Fort Wadsworth





1927
Nov. 6	L 0-28	Away	Fort Hamilton (3,000)
Nov. 20	L 7-12	Home	Elks moved from Away due to muddy field





1928





1929
.	W 32-0		Fort Hamilton





1930
Nov. 2	L 0-32	Home?	Fort Hamilton

History:
	•U.S. Army Airfield, constructed 11/1919 to 7/1921, on the site of William H. Vanderbilt's farm.
	•Named Miller Field for Captain James Ely Miller, shot down 3/10/1918 while comanding the 95^th Sqaudron over Rheims.
	•Air Service Coast Defense Station for the East Coast until October 1922.
	•The 102^nd Observation Squadron, 27^th Aviation Division, New York National Guard move to Miller Field in 1923 from Mitchel Field.
	•The U.S. Army 1^st Division, Tank Company move here 7/25/1925 after training at Camp Dix. Based here through the 1930's.
	•Admiral Richard Bird tests Ford Trimotor “Floyd Bennett” airplane engine at Miller Field, summer 1928. This plane engine would take Admiral Bird to the South Pole.
	•The 102^nd moved to Fort McClellan, Arkansas 10/15/1940.
	•From 1943 to 1946, twin 90mm Anti-Torpedo Boat Guns, AMTB Battery II guarded the New York Harbor from Miller Field
	•In 1950's Miller Field repaired Nike missiles.
	•Miller Field was the last grass runway in New York City.
	•Deactivated November 1969.
	•Now part of Gateway National Recreation Area.