Football is first played in Boston.

The Oneida Football Club beats a team made up of players from Boston Latin and English High School on Boston Common near today’s 139 Tremont Street. The first organized football game ever played, its victors are a team organized in the fall of 1862 by “Gat” Miller and his fellow students at Dixwell School on Boylston Place. The Oneida team wears red handkerchiefs as uniforms and takes its name from the lake near Miller’s hometown of Peterboro, New York. Its goal line is not crossed for three years. The ball used in that game is presented to the Boston Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1922 and a monument memorializing the game is dedicated on Boston Common in 1925.