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Rochester City Moose A.F.C.

American soccer club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7353956 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rochester City Moose A.F.C. were an American soccer club based out of Rochester, New York. The club participated in the 1919–20 National Challenge Cup, now the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and won the Rochester & District Soccer League that same season.

History

The club was founded in 1910 as the Sons of St. George and played one season in the Rochester and District League under this name. In 1911 they changed their name to Rochester City . For the 1919 season they affiliated with the Moose club and changed their name to the Rochester City Moose .

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The public source identifies “Rochester City Moose A.F.C.” as american soccer club. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rochester, City and Moose.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 1910, 1911—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1896. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rochester, City and Moose providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7353956. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1910 and 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rochester City Moose A.F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.