Game
The game played by the Oneida Football Club is known as the "Boston game". This informal local football variety later took hold at Harvard University and was an important precursor to American football. Although it has been claimed by much later followers of both soccer and American football, the club predated formal rules of any football variant.
The Oneida Foot Ball Club played its games on the Boston Common, where it is commemorated by a small stone monument. It played matches against pickup teams throughout the Boston collegiate community.
A history of the Oneida Foot Ball Club was written in 1926 by an original member of the club - Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder.
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