[2] At the time there were no formal rules for football games, with different schools and areas playing their own variations.
This informal style of play was often chaotic and very violent, and Miller had been a star of the game while attending Dixwell.
Organization served the club well, and it reportedly never lost a game, or even allowed a single goal.
The only reported soccer fixtures in the United States occurred in the Salt Lake City and New Orleans metropolitan areas.
Reported matches primarily consisted of men's college soccer teams, mostly of Ivy League schools and military academies.