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Oneida Football Club of Boston

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The Oneida Football Club of Boston, the first organized football club in the United States, played on this field against all comers from 1862 to 1865, and the Oneida goal was never crossed. The team included founder and captain Gerrit Smith Miller, Edward Lincoln Arnold, Robert Arthorp Bolt, Edward Bowditch, Walter Denison Brooks, George Davis, John Malcolm Forbes, John Power Hall, Robert Means Lawrence, James D’Wold Lovett, Francis Greenwood Peabody, Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, Alanson Tucker, Louis Thies, Robert Clifford Watson, and Huntington Frothingham Wolcott.
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