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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1862
|Year Number=6
|Headline=Harvard Turns to the New York Game
|Headline=Harvard Turns to the New York Game
|Year=1862
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=College,
|Location=Harvard
|Location=Harvard
|Tags=College
|Country=US
|Text=<p>"Base-Ball, the second in importance of [Harvard] University sports, is even younger than Rowing [which still prevailed]. It originated apparently, in the old game of rounders. Up to 1862 there were two varieties of base-ball - the New York and the Massachusetts game. In the autumn of 1862 George A. Flagg and Frank Wright organized the Base Ball Club of the Class of '66, adopting the New York rules; and in the following spring the city of Cambridge granted use of the Common for practice. A challenge was sent to several colleges: Yale replied that they had no club, but hoped soon to have one; but a game was arranged with Brown sophomores, and played at Providence [RI] June 27, 1863. The result was Harvard's first victory."</p>
|State=MA
<p>D. Hamilton Hurd, compiler, <u>History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts</u> (J. W. Lewis, Philadelphia, 1890), page 137. Accessed 2/18/10 via Google Books search ("flagg and frank" hurd). Flagg and Wright reportedly had played avidly at Phillips Exeter Academy. See #1858c.57 above.</p>
|City=Cambridge
|Game=Base Ball,
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p>"Base-Ball, the second in importance of [Harvard] University sports, is even younger than Rowing [which still prevailed]. It originated apparently, in the old game of rounders. Up to 1862 there were two varieties of base-ball - the New York and the Massachusetts game. In the autumn of 1862 George A. Flagg and Frank Wright organized the Base Ball Club of the Class of '66, adopting the New York rules; and in the following spring the city of Cambridge granted use of the Common for practice. A challenge was sent to several colleges: Yale replied that they had no club, but hoped soon to have one; but a game was arranged with Brown sophomores, and played at Providence [RI] June 27, 1863. The result was Harvard's first victory."</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>D. Hamilton Hurd, compiler,&nbsp;<span>History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts</span>&nbsp;(J. W. Lewis, Philadelphia, 1890), page 137. Accessed 2/18/10 via Google Books search ("flagg and frank" hurd).&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>Flagg and Wright reportedly had played avidly at Phillips Exeter Academy. See #1858c.57 above.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=6
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Tags College
Location Harvard
City/State/Country: Cambridge, MA, US
Game Base Ball
Age of Players Youth
Text

"Base-Ball, the second in importance of [Harvard] University sports, is even younger than Rowing [which still prevailed]. It originated apparently, in the old game of rounders. Up to 1862 there were two varieties of base-ball - the New York and the Massachusetts game. In the autumn of 1862 George A. Flagg and Frank Wright organized the Base Ball Club of the Class of '66, adopting the New York rules; and in the following spring the city of Cambridge granted use of the Common for practice. A challenge was sent to several colleges: Yale replied that they had no club, but hoped soon to have one; but a game was arranged with Brown sophomores, and played at Providence [RI] June 27, 1863. The result was Harvard's first victory."

 

Sources

D. Hamilton Hurd, compiler, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (J. W. Lewis, Philadelphia, 1890), page 137. Accessed 2/18/10 via Google Books search ("flagg and frank" hurd). 

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Flagg and Wright reportedly had played avidly at Phillips Exeter Academy. See #1858c.57 above.

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