The six surviving members of the Oneida Football Club, in the inauguration of the monument that remembered the team at Boston Common. Oneida is considered the first team to practice any form of football in the United States. (The former members, from left to right): Winthrop Scudder, James Lovett, Gerritt Miller (founder and captain), Francis Peabody, Robert Lawrence, Edward Arnold. (insert: Edward Bowditch).