The Brooklyn Skating Club played in the American Amateur Hockey League between 1896 and 1906 and won the championship title in 1898–99.

In the 1897–98 season the Brooklyn Skating Club played in light blue colors with "S. C.

Before the 1899–1900 season most players on the Brooklyn Skating Club (including Wall and Dobby) joined its local rival the Brooklyn Crescents (of the Crescent Athletic Club),[4] and the team abruptly ceased being a contender for the league championship title.

[5] At the onset of the 1905–06 season Howard tried to acquire a group of Canadian players, among them Ernie "Moose" Johnson, Frank "Pud" Glass and Horace Gaul to the club, in an attempt to ramp up the playing quality of the team, but the AAHL rules committee ruled the Canadians ineligible to play with the American club on counts of professionalism,[6] and the Brooklyn Skating Club ice hockey team ceased its operations two games into the seasons.

In the match report from the January 8, 1903 issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Huston is described as "a Canadian".