Oneida Football Club
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The Oneida Football Club, founded and captained by Gerrit Smith Miller in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1862, was the first organized team to play any kind of football in the United States. The game playe
Gerrit Smith Miller, founder and captain of the team
The ball used by Oneida in 1863 was box-shaped with rounded corners
The seven living members of the Oneida F.C. pictured in November 1923, (standing): Scudder, Arnold, Peabody; (seated): Bowditch, Lovett, Lawrence; (insert): Miller
Soccer in the United States has a varied history. Research indicates that the modern game entered the country during the 1850s with New Orleans' Scottish, Irish, German and Italian immigrants. Some of
Oneida Football Club
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Illustration depicting an Oneida football game, published on The Boston Globe in the 1860s
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