Team Details:
Essex team with a superb record. Between 1986 and 1989 lost just
three games. QB Milton Myers was the star in that period featuring in a high powered offense that took the team to the Budweiser
Premier Division title in 1988 with a 47-28 win against Brighton B-52s.
In 1991 the team merged with the Chelmsford Cherokee and played as the Essex Gladiators in 1991 and 1992,
playing their games at Melbourne Stadium, Chelmsford.
At the end of the 1992 season a new Colchester Gladiators team appeared, first in the BNGL Premier Division
and then, following the amalgamation of the leagues in 1994 the BAFA Division 4 and subsequently Div 3. This team was comprised
of a majority of players from the Colchester youth team plus around 12 or so veteran players with the old Gladiator management
team, until the team finally folded in 1996. During this time played at Monkwick leisure centre, Colchester and were sometimes
known as the "Sloppy Joe's" Gladiators after our sponsor.
Not active a a league team from 1996-2004. Reformed during 2003 & played a 20th Anniversary Game Vs Essex
University BCAFL Team, Essex Blades - Result: Won 50-8.
Team trained during 2004, have re-formed, returned to league action during 2005 & compete
in the British American Football League (BAFL).
Coach George Baldwin's book "Seeing England from the fifty yard line" ISBN 0-930753-20-8 chronicles the Gladiators.
