Oneida Football Club
The Oneida Football Club , sometimes referred to as the Oneida Soccer Club , was an American football club .
In 1861 Gerritt Smith-Miller founded a soccer team with other students from Boston , which played their games in Boston Common Park. Oneida Football Club, the name derived from the nearby Lake Oneida , was the first football club outside of England.
From 1862 to 1865 , the year of the dissolution, the Oneida Football Club did not lose a single game against neighboring Boston national teams and did not concede a goal.
It is believed that the rules by which the Oneida Boys played varied from match to match. The club is often referred to as the initiator of the Boston Game , a variant in which the ball is played with the foot, but can also be carried in the hand. It was dissolved in 1867.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ World's Oldest Soccer Ball
- ^ Helmut Kuhn: Football in the USA . Bremen 1994. ISBN 3-86108-231-4
- ↑ ibid