While Col. Ed Kenyon was officially Gainesville High School’s first football coach, starting in 1910, the sport in Gainesville goes back further, even to 1905. Games were played then at Chattahoochee Park, a park now known as the American Legion park at the end of Riverside Drive. What is now the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega, then North Georgia Agricultural College, had football teams very early in the 1900s and played games at the Gainesville park.