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1909: First Town football game

The Town's first football team plays against Ipswich and wins (12-6) with Raymond O. Brackett, owner of the Rockmere Hotel, as the head coach, amid some controversy by parents not wanting their sons to play in such a dangerous contact sport. Brackett argued that the team represented Marblehead's fighting spirit … Continue reading

 have been adapted with thanks from Bill Purdin’s Marblehead History Timeline published by Marblehead Magazine.

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