Oneida Football Club Monument
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| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Designer | Joseph Arthur Coletti |
| Type | Monument |
| Material | Marble |
| Length | 2.5 ft |
| Width | 7 in |
| Height | 6.5 ft |
| Opening date | November 1925 |
| Dedicated to | Oneida Football Club |
The Oneida Football Club Monument, sometimes called Football Tablet, is a monument by Joseph Coletti and installed on the Boston Common, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
It remembers the Oneida Football Club, the first organized team to play any kind of football in the United States.[1] The game played by the club, known as the "Boston game", was an informal local variant that predated the codification of rules for association football, rugby football, or American football.[2][3] The team, made up of students of Boston's elite preparatory schools, played on Boston Common from 1862 to 1865, during which time they reportedly never lost a game or even gave up a single point.[4][5]
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Overview
The marble table was donated by seven members of the Oneida Football Club and installed in 1925. It measures approximately 6.5 ft. × 2.5 ft. × 7 in.
An inscription on the front reads:
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"
An inscription on the back reads, "MEMBERS OF THE ONEIDA TEAM", with the list of the 16 members of the original team.[6][4]
The monument was unveiled on Saturday November 21, 1925, and was attended by the six surviving members of the team including its founder and captain Gerritt Smith Miller.[4]
It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1997.[6]
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- ↑ No Christian End! The Beginnings of Football in America Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine By PFRA Research (Originally Published in The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 (PFRA Books)
- ↑ THE BOSTON GAME Archived 2022-11-28 at the Wayback Machine article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu
- ↑ Were the Oneidas playing soccer or not? by Roger Allaway at sover.net (archived)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 An Historical Sketch of the Oneida Football Club of Boston: 1862-1865 Archived 2022-12-02 at the Wayback Machine by Winthrop S. Scudder - Library of the University of Wisconsin
- ↑ Remembering the first high school football games By Bob Holmes on The Boston Globe, 21 Nov 2012
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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