Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

by Dr. Mike Cronin and Dr. Kevin Tallec Marston

On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"--an early version of football in the United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age. Later as they grew old, in the 1920s, a handful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625348436
• ISBN13: 9781625348432
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 360 Pages