In 1892, the team practiced under electric lights at night to prepare for an October 8 game against Rutgers College.

The team also played in World Series of Football in that year, at Madison Square Garden.

However, the team returned to the World Series of Football in 1903, when they played the Watertown Red & Black and the eventual champion, the Franklin Athletic Club.

They also played pre-NFL versions of the Frankford Yellow Jackets and the Staten Island Stapletons.

They also played against the Atlantic City Roses and the Millville Big Blue, two of the top independent teams of the 1920s.

By 1928, Orange held the New York Giants and Frankford Yellow Jackets to close scores.

A week earlier the NFL's previous champions, the Frankford Yellow Jackets, were held to a 12–0 victory.

In 1929 Ole Haugsrud, the owner of Duluth Eskimos, sold his NFL franchise rights for the Eskimos to Piggy Simandl, a wholesale meat salesman and sports promoter from Orange, who named his franchise the Orange Tornadoes.

The victory came off a short George Pease pass to Paul Longua, who ran 60 yards for a touchdown.

On October 3, the Tornadoes held the Staten Island Stapletons to a scoreless tie at Thompson Stadium.

But after a scoreless tie against Frankford, the Orange defeated the Staten Island Stapletons 3–0, due to a Felix McCormick field goal.

In 1932, a Boston-based group headed by George Preston Marshall won a new NFL franchise.

Strong circumstantial evidence indicates that Marshall's group was awarded the remains of the failed Newark organization.

The Orange Tornadoes moved back to Newark in 1937 and were eventually bought by the Chicago Bears.