The Continentals Football Club of New York City was a U.S. soccer team which had a brief period of national prominence from 1914 to 1918.
A newspaper clip from January 1914 provides a clue to the origins on the team when it mentions that in a game of the New York Footballers Protective Association, "The Continentals had previously distinguished themselves by defeating England by 6 goals to 1.
On their team yesterday were players from Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Hungary.”[1] This competition was held annually, with the Continentals participating, until at least 1922.
[2] In April 1915, the team was finishing the 1914-1915 season in the New York State Amateur Football League (NYSAFL).
In 1916, Harry Cooper was selected to play for the first United States men's national soccer team on its tour of Scandinavia.