Millville Football & Athletic Club also known as the Millville Big Blue was a professional football

American football

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 team based in Millville, New Jersey

Millville, New Jersey

Millville is a city in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city population was 26,847. Millville, Bridgeton and Vineland are the three principal New Jersey cities of the Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area which...

 from 1921 until around 1928. The team won the mythical "Pro Football Championship of New Jersey" in 1923 and again in 1925.

At end of the 1925, several members of the Big Blue traveled to Florida

Florida

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 to play a series of exhibition games. After a game against the Tampa Cardinals

Tampa Cardinals

The Tampa Cardinals, was a football barnstorming team, that played pick-up games, led by future pro football hall of famer, Jim Thorpe in 1926. During the time, the team was also billed as the St. Petersburg Cardinals and as Lena Vistas,...

, a team put together by the legendary Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe

Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe * Gerasimo and Whiteley. pg. 28 * americaslibrary.gov, accessed April 23, 2007. was an American athlete of mixed ancestry...

, they took the name Haven-Villa of Winter Haven

Haven-Villa of Winter Haven

The Haven-Villa of Winter Haven was a professional football team based in Winter Haven, Florida in 1926. While the team originated as a successful local team...

. During their time in Florida, the Big Blue comprised a 5-0-1 record.

Other notable players

• Punk Berryman
  Punk Berryman
  Robert Norman "Punk" Berryman was a professional American football coach. He played as a halfback at Pennsylvania State University and was elected All-American in his senior year . He went on to coach at Lafayette College, the University of Iowa, then at Dickinson College. In 1922 and 1923 he was...
  
  
• Rae Crowther
  Rae Crowther
  Rae Crowther was a professional football player for the National Football League's Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1925 until 1926. He won the 1926 NFL Championship with the Yellow Jackets. Outside of the NFL, he played for the Millville Big Blue, a successful independent team out of New Jersey...
  
  
• Leo Douglass
  Leo Douglass
  Leo Frederick Douglass was a professional football who played in the National Football League in 1926. Douglass split the 1926 season playing for the Brooklyn Lions and the Frankford Yellow Jackets. He won the 1926 NFL championship when with Yellow Jackets....
  
  
• Gyp Downey
• Carroll "Ginny" Gooch
• Two-Bits Homan
  Two-Bits Homan
  Henry Homan was a professional American football player. Homan was a college stand-out at Lebanon Valley College where he played quarterback and graduated in 1924. He gained his nickname of "Two Bits" due to his size...
  
  
• Ben Jones
  Ben Jones (American football)
  Benjamin F. H. Jones was a professional football player during the early years of the National Football League. Jones won an NFL championship with the Canton Bulldogs in 1923, one with the Cleveland Bulldogs in 1924, and another with the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1926. He finished his career...
  
  
• Elmer McCormick
• Dinty Moore
  Dinty Moore (American football)
  Walter Stanley Moore was a professional football player from New York City. He attended and played college football for Lafayette College and made his National Football League debut in 1927 with the Pottsville Maroons. He played only one season for the Maroons before ending his NFL career....
  
  
• Daddy Potts
  Daddy Potts
  Robert Crockett "Daddy" Potts was a professional football player for the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1926 NFL season. Potts won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow Jackets. Outside of the NFL, he played for the Millville Big Blue, a successful independent team out of New Jersey...
  
  
• Swede Youngstrom
  Swede Youngstrom
  Adolph Frederick "Swede" Youngstrom was a professional football player. Over the span of his career in the National Football League, Youngstrom played with the Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Bulldogs and the Frankford Yellow Jackets. He also served as a...