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24-810: Founded in 1998, the team currently place in Eastern Australian Football League and the USAFL's Eastern region. In the winter of 1998, a group of ex-pat Australians and American enthusiasts of Australian Rules football founded a team in the city after several kick-arounds at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in South Philadelphia. Reaching an agreement with the Adelaide Football Club of the Australian Football League ,

48-703: A final for the second time in three seasons, where they would fall to another Hawthorn sponsored club, the Arizona Hawks , by 2 points. A return to the D-II final would come the following year, but a 35-point defeat to the Golden Gate Roos would end the year without a trophy. After failing to reach the Grand Finals in the next two seasons from Division II, and after falling behind Eastern Australian Football League rivals New York Magpies and Baltimore Washington Eagles ,

72-553: A regular season that saw a club record seven regular season wins and a first ever Eastern Regional Championship, the Hawks were named as the top seed in Division 3. Despite a 1-1 record on Saturday, Philadelphia advanced to the semifinal as a wild card team. Defeating EAFL rival Columbus Cats in the semi, the Hawks kicked five unanswered goals in the second half of the Grand Final to turn aside

96-483: A win over eventual D-I National Champion New York, and a 3rd place finish in the EAFL. The Hawks were rewarded with a promotion back to D-II after three years, and though they would go 0-3 on the weekend, their improvement had turned heads around the league. The following season saw a return to Division II and another winless campaign at Nationals. After finally snapping a nine game Nationals losing streak in 2012 by going 1-2,

120-492: A win, two points for a draw, and none for a loss. Any ties for position are broken by points percentage: (PF / PA) * 100. Arizona Hawks The Arizona Hawks is a United States Australian Football League team, based in Arizona , United States . It was founded in 1998 by Jess Keller and then fully functional by Andrew Ashworth in 1999, becoming the first Australian rules football club in Arizona . The Hawks have won

144-815: The USAFL National Championships Men's Div 2 Grand Final in 2004, the Men's Div 3 Grand Final in 2011, 2021 and were runner up in 2022. The Women's Team were runners up in the Women's Div 1 Grand Final in 2007. Arizona Hawk Dani Marshall was drafted to the AFLW in 2020 to play the sport professionally in Australia. This article about a sports team in Arizona is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an Australian rules football team or club

168-655: The USAFL National Championships at the end of each season. The goal was to have a full round-robin fixture similar to 2005–2011. With Baltimore-Washington expanding into two new clubs, the Baltimore Dockers and D.C. Eagles, and the Columbus Jackaroos joining the remaining four clubs—Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and North Carolina—that would mean a six-game schedule. But due to the varying resources, non-regional ambitions, and travel capabilities from

192-528: The 2016 season, however. After years of planning and false starts, the Philadelphia AusBall league, a non-contact, co-ed program was initiated with the hope of drawing in new recruits for the men's team, and to lay the seeds for the beginning of a women's side. Two of those players, Erica Sacci and Amy Arundale, would be the first women to represent the Philadelphia Hawks in the women's division of

216-875: The Baltimore Washington Eagles, the Pittsburgh Wallabies, the Philadelphia Hawks, the New York Magpies and the Boston Demons. At the end of the season, Pittsburgh disbanded, and the Redbacks pulled out of the league due to high travel costs of playing the Northern teams. The league continued as a five-team division from 2006 until 2010. From 2006, the USAFL's two Florida-based clubs, the Tampa area based Redbacks and Fort Lauderdale Fighting Squids, played together as

240-816: The Eastern United States of America and a division of the United States Australian Football League . In the early months of 2005, member clubs of the South Eastern Australian Football League and North Eastern Australian Football League on the eastern seaboard formed a new league, the Eastern AFL. The league at the start of the 2005 season comprised the Florida Redbacks, the North Carolina Tigers,

264-641: The Florida United Saints, playing an independent schedule against teams in the Southeast. In 2010, the Saints played four of the five EAFL clubs (all except Boston). Prior to the 2011 season, the Redbacks and Squids ended their merger played as two separate clubs, with the Squids playing independently still and the Redbacks returning to play a full EAFL schedule. They returned to a regional schedule in 2012 before folding

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288-620: The Hawks were demoted back down to D-III after going through the regular season winless. 364 days after defeating the Portland Steelheads at Nationals in Mason, Philadelphia would end their long drought with victories over Austin Crows reserves and Des Moines Roosters before falling to the Sacramento Suns in the final group match on Saturday. The 2014 season would be the best in some time for

312-640: The Hawks were demoted back down to Division III for the 2008 Nationals in Colorado Springs. After a 1-2 finish that year, the team's performance would sink after a disheartening loss to North Carolina at home in June 2009. Using that result as a wake-up call, the Hawks would rebound to win four of their final six matches on the year, ending up one game short of the D-III Grand Final at that year's Nationals. The improvement lasted into season 2010, highlighted by

336-614: The Hawks, as they picked up several victories on the year and ran through Portland, the Calgary Kangaroos reserves, and Fort Lauderdale Fighting Squids to reach their fourth grand final. Again, however, it would be the Suns who would end the dream with a 43-5 victory in the Grand Final at Dublin, Ohio. Philadelphia would enter the 2015 and 2016 season with hopes of making it back to the Grand Final in those years, but would go 2-1 and 1-2, respectfully, to miss out. History would be made during

360-477: The Ohio Valley River Rats, 46-20. Hawks players Jon Loring and Patrick Miller became the first dual premiership players in Hawks history, having been members of the 2002 D3 premiership team. While the men's team was able to duplicate their Eastern Regional success in 2019, they were unable to secure a second straight National title, going 2-1 in their Division 2 return. The Lady Hawks, however, picked up

384-620: The USAFL Nationals, leading a side combined with the Boston Demons and Montreal Angels to a 2nd place finish in women's Division II. A year later, five Lady Hawks combined with the Portland Sockeyes to take out the Women's D2 title at the 2017 Nationals in San Diego. The men's side would finally see their long premiership drought come to an end at the 2018 Nationals in Racine, Wisconsin. After

408-407: The different clubs involved, not all clubs would be able to commit to such a full schedule. Thus, a pod-based, round robin schedule featuring 2x20 "lightning" matches was proposed which would still produce a full schedule, while at the same time reducing the commitment level of the clubs to three dates. Each round will see one team will host two other teams in a three-way "pod", where each team plays

432-448: The following season. Boston won the inaugural EAFL championship title over New York. The Magpies struck back in 2006 before the Eagles took out the flag in 2007 and 2008. The ensuing years saw Magpie domination as they finished top of the table in each of the years from 2009 through 2013 before the competition went on hiatus in 2013. From 2005 through 2011, each team played the other once,

456-440: The other two in 2x20 minute matches. The season is played over seven rounds, which each team getting the opportunity to host one round and travelling for the remaining two. That means that each side will play two home games, two "away" games against the club hosting the pod, and two "neutral" games against the other traveling club within the pod. The ladder follows the same format as the Australian Football League : four points for

480-459: The remaining EAFL sides. From 2014, each club scheduled irregular matches with the others, and league rankings were not kept, and the competition effectively went on hiatus. In 2017, Baltimore-Washington president Antoun Issa expressed the desire for the legacy EAFL clubs to reform the competition for 2018 in the hope of restoring structure to the USAFL season for the involved clubs, and for the results to have consequences on seeding and placement at

504-596: The slack. Combining with the Arizona Hawks and augmented by players from the Boston Demons and Baltimore Dockers, the Lady Hawks won their second Women's Division 2 title. On the strength of a last minute Casey Troy goal, the Hawks and company defeated the DC Eagles 13-8 in the final. Eastern Australian Football League The Eastern Australian Football League is an Australian rules football competition in

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528-689: The team was initially known as the Philadelphia Crows . After modest results in their first three seasons, the Crows would win the 2002 Division III USAFL National Championship in Kansas City, defeating the Milwaukee Bombers in the final, 3.8 (26) to 2.2 (14). Following the 2003 season, which saw them promoted to Division II, the Hawthorn Football Club , citing the club's success, offered to take over sponsorship from Adelaide. The offer

552-450: The team with the best record being awarded the title. Home and away fixtures were reversed every year to ensure that each team played the others once and home and once away every two years. Scheduling conflicts and other logistical challenges prevented a full fixture from being played in 2012 and 2013, but the Magpies were crowned champions based on having the best record in full matches against

576-572: Was accepted, and the team became the Philadelphia Hawks , adapting their mother club's colors of brown and gold. That same offseason saw the club absorb the remnants of the defunct Lehigh Valley Crocodiles club, which meant the addition of brothers Josh and Jon Loring. Entering the 2004 season, the Hawks were considered favorites to win the Division II title at Nationals in Atlanta. They would reach

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