In its three-year lifespan, it hosted football and boxing events before it was demolished in 1929.

The Hartford Blues played their 1926 and 1927 seasons at the velodrome, a then-new bicycle track located across the Connecticut River in East Hartford.

The grass football field barely fit inside the wooden track.

[2] The Velodrome was the home for the National Football League's Hartford Blues for their 1926 and 1927 seasons.

One event was main evented by Connecticut's own Christopher "Battling" Battalino, when he defeated Archie Rosenberg by knock-out.