The Oneidas weren’t really the first American soccer team. Even so, they were an important stepping stone in the direction of the American soccer that we know today.
Early Codes
“The Noxious Scottish Weed”: Early North American soccer and the Laws of the Game
Ed Farnsworth, Tom McCabe, and Kurt Rausch consider why the first soccer associations in North America favored the Scottish FA over the English FA as the source for their Laws of the Game.
How it Began
Brian D. Bunk on how teams and matches were organized in the early period of US soccer history.
When a goal is not a goal
An examination of the Columbia-Rutgers game played on Nov. 2, 1872 shows it was played under a form of association football rules, not American gridiron rules.
1858: A pivotal year in early American “Foot-ball”
By 1858, two forms of football were being played in the US, the kicking game and the carrying game.
America and the 1863 Football Association Code
A look at the early history of football in the US, before and after the 1863 Laws of the Game.
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