The Melrose Athletic Club was a professional football team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey from 1921 until around 1927.
[1] During the 1927 season the Roses acquired many players from the now-defunct Philadelphia Quakers who were named American Football League a year earlier.
Al Kruez and George Sullivan were in the Roses line-up for an October 2, 1927 game against the Staten Island Stapletons.
Atlantic City's star of the game was end Whitey Thomas, another ex-Quaker, who caught four passes for 101 yards.
[2] The team played all of its home games at Bader Field which was, and still is, a part of Atlantic City's airport.