Site of First Game in the NFL
Inscription
On October 3, 1920 the first game matching two professional teams of the American Professional Football Association, a league that would become the National Football League (NFL), was held on this field within Triangle Park. In that game, the Dayton Triangles defeated the Columbus Panhandles 14-0. The Triangle’s Lou Partlow scored the first touchdown and George “Hobby” Kinderdine kicked the first extra point. Three factories founded by Dayton businessmen Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering sponsored the Dayton Triangles team. The factories were the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO), Dayton Metal Products Company (D.M.P.Co.), and Domestic Engineering Company (DECO), later call Delco-Light. They formed an industrial triangle of plants in downtown Dayton.
[Side B]: Same
Location
Sources
More markers in Montgomery
First Baptist Church of Dayton Bicentennial
Dayton, OH
First Baptist Church of Dayton organized on May 29, 1824.
(B) Mad River Road / Road from Cunningham’s to Mad River
The first overland route between Dayton and Cincinnati was cut by Daniel Cooper in 1795 to provide access to the new town of Dayton,...
Triangle Park “A Gathering Place”
Dayton, OH
In 1916, Dayton industrialists Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds purchased the “Idylwild estate of Daniel Eldridge Mead and a larger...
Dayton VA Medical Center
Dayton, OH
The Dayton Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center was established by Congressional legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March...
Slifers Presbyterian Church
Slifers Presbyterian Church is on land deeded to the local faith community by Philip and Elizabeth Slifer on December 2, 1816.