[2] 1896 Stanley Cup champion (with the Winnipeg Victorias) Tom Howard played with the Wanderers in 1903–04 & 1904–05 and helped the team win a league championship title in 1904.

The New York Wanderers formed prior to the 1903–04 AAHL season when four of the best players (Tom Howard, Max Hornfeck, Charlie Clarke and Jack Carruthers) on the New York Athletic Club deserted the team and joined with St. Nicholas Hockey Club players Ken Gordon and Harold Hayward to start a new aggregation.

In their later years, the Wanderers fell out of favor with the AAHL by causing what The New York Times called "certain unpleasantness and several breaches of the rules".

[5] The club was reorganized in late 1917 with the plan of playing weekly exhibition matches against teams from other cities in the United States and Canada.

[6] Starting the following January, the Wanderers participated in the only season of the United States National Hockey League, finishing third among four teams.