Howell Field (baseball). The site of the first NFL Football game is now the Howell Baseball Field in Triangle Park, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Ohio Historical
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Howell Field (baseball). The site of the first NFL Football game is now the Howell Baseball Field in Triangle Park, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Ohio Historical Marker text: SITE OF FIRST GAME IN THE NFL. On October 3, 1920 the first game matching two professional teams of the American Professional Football Association, a league that would become the National Football League (NFL), was held on this field within Triangle Park. In that game, the Dayton Triangles defeated the Columbus Panhandles 14-0. The Triangle's Lou Partlow scored the first touchdown and George “Hobby Kinderdine kicked the first extra point. Three factories founded by Dayton businessmen Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering sponsored the Dayton Triangles team. The factories were the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO), Dayton Metal Products Company (D.M.P. Co.), and Domestic Engineering Company (DECO), later called Delco-Light. They formed an industrial triangle of plants in downtown Dayton.