October 3 in Ohio History: The First NFL Game and Goodbye to the Old Stadium | On This Day in Ohio

October 3rd in Ohio: the 1920 Dayton Triangles vs. Columbus Panhandles game, the first between two teams of the league that became the NFL; Ohio's first night college football game; the 1818 Delaware (Lenape) treaty at St. Mary's; Harry Wright, founder of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings; the first Ohio State Highway Patrol cadet school; Lorain County Community College; and the last Indians game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

0:00 Cold open
0:42 Kickoffs
1:34 The move west
2:08 Founders and first days
3:00 Goodbye, hello

Sources include: Ohio Historical Markers 9-57, 15-76, 18-47 and 22-62; Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties; Baseball-Reference and Retrosheet; Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

Cleveland Municipal Stadium photo (1993): Wasted Time R, CC BY 3.0.
Photos: Library of Congress, NASA, and Wikimedia Commons (public domain and Creative Commons; individual credits appear on screen).
Maps: U.S. Census Bureau and Natural Earth.
Music: "Beautiful Ohio" (1918), public-domain recordings via the Library of Congress National Jukebox and UCSB Cylinder Archive.
Narration: AI voice.