Hamburg Blue Devils Independent Schedule Record 1993

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
Hamburg Blue Devils	12	10	2	0	402	259	.833

Hamburg Blue Devils Independent Schedule

Date	Home Team		Away Team
08.05.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	35	Manchester Euro Spartans	20
05.06.1993	Aix-en-Provence Argonautes	20	Hamburg Blue Devils	40
12.06.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	12	Pacific Lutheran University	42
19.06.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	48	Amsterdam Crusaders	30
26.06.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	55	Helsinki Roosters	20
14.08.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	31	Cologne Crocodiles	21
21.08.1993	Manchester Euro Spartans	21	Hamburg Blue Devils	23
28.08.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	36	Uppsala 86ers	27
04.09.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	16	Finland All-Stars	6
11.09.1993	Findlay Oilers	28	Hamburg Blue Devils	7
26.09.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	41	Manchester Euro Spartans	10
02.10.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	53	Munich Cowboys	30

Note: Games in Italics were official European League Games.

European League of American Football Final Standings

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
Continental Conference
Hamburg Blue Devils	3	3	0	0	89	62	1.000
Cologne Crocodiles	1	0	1	0	21	31	.000
Munich Cowboys	1	–	–	–	–	–	–
Manchester Euro Spartans	3	0	2	0	41	58	.000
UK Conference
EuroSteelers	2	2	0	0	46	20	1.000
EuroRaiders	2	1	1	0	36	36	.500
EuroMonarchs	2	1	1	0	46	52	.500
EuroBears	2	0	2	0	36	56	.000

Note: + One fixture between the Cologne Crocodiles and Hamburg Blue Devils was an exhibition match. The Cologne Crocodiles and Munich Cowboys played in the German Football League in 1993 – they met in the German Bowl, the other Continental Conference Semi-Final. Manchester Spartans and Hamburg Blue Devils left their respective leagues to play in the European League with an ad-hoc schedule apart from two games against each other. Manchester Spartans played as Euro Spartans to signify they were now a European League team.

Continental Conference Final Four Tournament

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
26.09.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	41	Euro Spartans	0
26.09.1993	Cologne Crocodiles	36	Munich Cowboys	42 (2ot)
	3rd Place		Venue: Hamburg
02.10.1993	Cologne Crocodiles		Euro Spartans
	Final		Venue: Hamburg
02.10.1993	Hamburg Blue Devils	53	Munich Cowboys	30

European League – Continental Conference Final Four Tournament 1993 [Ref: 4-5]

UK Conference Final Four Tournament

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
24.10.1993	EuroSteelers	L	EuroBears	W
24.10.1993	EuroRaiders	W	EuroMonarchs	L
	Final
31.10.1993	EuroBears	14	EuroRaiders	12

Report

Hamburg Devils played an independent schedule in 1993. They played matches against European teams Aix-en-Provence Argonauts, Helsinki Roosters, Amsterdam Crusaders, Uppsala 86ers (Sweden), Finland All-Stars as well as American teams Findlay Oilers and Pacific Lutheran University.

They also played in a limited schedule European League with GFL teams Cologne Crocodiles and Munich Cowboys, as well as Britain’s Manchester Spartans – renamed the Euro Spartans for the occasion. They defeated German Bowl Champions Munich Cowboys 53-30 in their last game of the season, finishing 10-2, with the two losses only coming against American teams.

References

Newspapers

[1] Berry, Lee (1993) “Spartans Humbled in Hamburg” First Down. May 15, 1993. pg. 17

[2] (1993) “Happy Campers” First Down. August 14, 1993. pg. 20

[3] Berry, Lee (1993) “Germans Get Away with Blue Murder” First Down. August 28, 1993. pg. 18.

[4] Berry, Lee (1993) “Spartans humble” First Down. October 2, 1993. pg. ??.

Internet Archive

[5] Hamburg Blue Devils Fansite| Wayback Machine (2000) Die Hamburg Blue Devils 1992-2000 {internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012165353/http://devils.de/ [Accessed 13 June 2020]

[6] Cologne Crocodiles (2020) Seniors Saison 1993 [Internet] Available from: https://cologne-crocodiles.de/seniors-saison-1993/ [Accessed 13 June 2020]

Newspapers

[7] Berry, Lee (1993) “They said it couldn’t be done” First Down. October 16, 1993. pg. 20

[8] Berry, Lee (1993) “Nuttall mints it with Raiders” First Down. October 16, 1993. pg. 20.

[9] Berry, Lee (1993) “Semi-Conscience” First Down. October 23, 1993. pg. 20.

[10] Berry, Lee (1993) “Near-Miss!” First Down. November 6, 1993. pg. 21.

Internet Archive

[11] Hamburg Blue Devils | Wayback Machine (1999) Devils History 1993 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012165353/http://devils.de/ +[Accessed 13 June 2020]

Images

[12] Hamburg Blue Devils (2020) Logo_Image-169 [Internet] Available from: http://bluedevils.hamburg/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Logo-Image_169.png [Accessed 14 June 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Shane Mulcahy.

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