The Story of the NFL's Dayton Triangles

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Ohio Historical Society Historical
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Triangle Park, Dayton, Ohio
Saturday, April 30, 2005

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Dayton Triangle Park Historical Marker
Claudia Watson, Montgomery County Historical Society		 Dayton Triangle Park Historical Marker
Michael Ring, Ohio Historical Society		 Dayton Triangle Park Historical Marker
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Site of the First Game in the NFL

On October 3, 1920 the first game matching two professional teams in the league that was to become the National Football League (NFL) was held on this field within Triangle Park.

In that first game, the Dayton Triangles defeated the Columbus Panhandles 14-0. The Triangles' Lou Partlow scored the first touchdown and George "Hobby" Kinderdine kicked the first extra point.

The Dayton Triangles team was sponsored by three factories founded by Dayton businessmen Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering. The factories: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO), Dayton Metal Products Company (D.M.P. Co.) and Domestic Engineering Company (DECO, later called Delco-Light) formed an industrial triangle of plants in downtown Dayton, Ohio.

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