In the newspapers before and after 1870, the team was often called the Forest Citys, in the same generic way that the team from Chicago was sometimes called The Chicagos.
在1870年前後的報紙上，這支球隊通常被稱為森林城隊，正如來自芝加哥的棒球隊有時也通稱為芝加哥隊。