1842c.9

Haverford Students Form Cricket Team of Americans

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	CollegeCollege
Location	PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia
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Game	CricketCricket
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Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Text	"Haverford College [Haverford PA] students, however, played cricket with English hosiery weavers prior to 1842, the year the students formed the first all-American team."
Sources	Lester, John A., A Century of Philadelphia Cricket (U of Penn Press, Philadelphia, 1951), pages 9-11; as cited in Gelber, Steven M., "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917," Journal of Sport History, Vol. 11, number 1 (Spring 1984), page 15. Lester cites "a manuscript diary kept by an unknown student . . . under the date 1834."
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Comment	Haverford is about 10 miles NW of downtown Philadelphia. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Iis Lester saying this is the first Haverford all-native team, first US all-native team, or what? Can we resolve the discrepancy between 1834 and 18"before 1842" as the time that the club formed? Edit with form to add a query
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