New York Olympic Athletic Club football team

The New York Olympic Athletic Club football team was an early semi-professional football team based in New York City. The team was founded by club owner, Roderick McMahon and is best remembered for playing in the 1903 World Series of Football. During the series, the Olympic A.C. defeated the Knickerbocker Athletic Club by a hard-fought score of 6-0 at Madison Square Garden.

References

• "Liverly Indoor Football". New York Times (December 15). 1903. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30E13FC3E5D11738DDDAC0994DA415B838CF1D3. 
• Carroll, Bob (1980). "The First Football World Series". Coffin Corner (Professional Football Researchers Association) 2 (Annual): 1–8. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/02-An-054.pdf. 
• Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Avalon Publishing Group. ISBN 0786709596. http://books.google.com/?id=rCnbhSRZpgIC.