Основатели американского футбола: Oneida Football Club

First organized team to play any kind of football in the United States
the historical football team
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|title = Oneida
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|label1 = Full name
|data1 = Oneida Football Club
|label2 = Nicknames
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|label3 = Location
|data3 = Boston, Massachusetts, US
|label4 = Founded
|data4 = 1862
|label5 = Dissolved
|data5 = refn|Although the team was dissolved in 1865, self appointed "club president" Tom McGrath pays a yearly fee of $50 to the city of Boston to keep an organization by that name registered. The game played by the club, known as the "Boston game", was an informal local variant that combined association and rugby football

Gerrit Smith Miller started his sports career playing baseball. In 1859, while 14 years old, Miller organized the "Bobolink B. B. C. (Base Ball Club)" of Peterboro, N. Y., where he was elected president, captain and pitcher. In 1861, he joined the Lowell BBC of Boston, where he was also captain and pitcher. Miller then attended Harvard University, where he was part of its baseball team. The ball used in the Oneida match vs the English High and Boston Public Latin Schools combined in November 1863, was treasured by Captain Miller (along with his red handkerchief) for 49 years until in 1922 he presented them to the "Boston Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities" (now Historic New England), putting them in its Museum, in the old Harrison Gray Otis House, on Cambridge Street, Boston. On November 7, 1923, a bronze plaque was unveiled in honor of Oneida's founder and captain, Gerrit Smith Miller, at the Noble and Greenough School. The date commemorated the 70th anniversary of the most prominent game won by Oneida. The plaque was inspired on Webb Ellis's dedication as the inventor of rugby football. During the ceremony, a cablegram by Rugby School of England congratulating Miller was received. Former Oneida player Winthrop S. Scudder wrote a history of the team named Gerrit Smith Miller: An Appreciation, published in 1924. It described the history of the Oneida FC through the life and career of its founder and captain Miller.