# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerrit-smith-miller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:53:28.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerrit-smith-miller"
name: "Gerrit Smith Miller"
slug: "gerrit-smith-miller"
description: "Gerrit Smith Miller, commonly called Gat, was an American businessman, farmer, sportsman and politician regarded as \"the father of football in the United States\" as the founder of Oneida Football Club, considered the first organized team to play any form of football in the country. The Oneida Club established informal rules which came to be known as the \"Boston game\" and are considered the first step to the codification of rules for association football, rugby football, or American football."
tagline: "American farmer and sportsman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerrit_Smith_Miller_at_78_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1845-01-30"
deathDate: "1937-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.28
  momentum:             3.362068965517242
  historical:           1.538913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Smith_Miller"
    title: "Gerrit Smith Miller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113518756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations