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The military bases played the game first.
The first two football teams were Allegheny Athletic Association and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. The AAA defeated Pittsburgh in the first pro football game on November 12, 1892.
That was the 1948 Games in London. France defeated India, 2-1. to eliminate them from medal competition.
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Team sports competed at the 1900 Games in Paris were cricket, football, polo, rugby, tug-of-war, and water polo. Records show the first competition of a team sport was a polo match in late May, 1900 between a French team and a team comprised mostly of players from Great Britain along with two players from the United States and one from Ireland. The 'mixed' team defeated the French team 10-0.