Oneida Football Club
Boston Common
Boston, MA
N 42° 21.373 W 071° 04.031
Short Description:
A tablet commemorating the first football club in the United States is located on the northwest part of the Boston Common near Beacon Street.
Long Description:
Exactly what type of football played by the Oneida Football Club remains a mystery, since the "Boston Game" that the of graduates of Boston's elite preparatory schools played predated the formation of rules for association football (soccer), rugby, or American football.
A 6.5' by 2.5' by .5' granite tablet by designed by J. Howland Jones and sculpted by Joseph Arthur Coletti was installed in 1925 on the Boston Common.
On the front is the inscription:
{Image of a Soccer Ball}
ON THIS FIELD THE ONEIDA
FOOTBALL CLUB OF BOSTON
THE FIRST ORGANIZED FOOTBALL
CLUB IN THE UNITED STATES
PLAYED AGAINST ALL COMERS
FROM 1862 TO 1865. THE ONEIDA
GOAL WAS NEVER CROSSED
THIS MONUMENT IS PLACED ON BOSTON COMMON
NOVEMBER 1925 BY THE SEVEN SURVIVING MEMBERS
OF THE TEAM
On the back of is inscribed:
MEMBERS OF THE ONEIDA TEAM
GERRIT SMITH MILLER
FOUNDER AND CAPTAIN
EDWARD LINCOLN ARNOLD
ROBERT APTHORP BOIT
EDWARD BOWDITCH
WALTER DENISON BROOKS
GEORGE DAVIS
JOHN MALCOLM FORBES
JOHN POWER HALL
ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE
JAMES D'WOLF LOVETT
FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY
WINTHROP SALTONSTALL SCUDDER
ALANSON TUCKER
LOUIS THEIS
ROBERT CLIFFORD WATSON
HUNTINGTON FRONTHINGHAM WOLCOTT
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