1853c.13
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At Harvard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | College, Harvard CollegeCollege, Harvard College |
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| City/State/Country: | Cambridge, MA, United States |
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| Game | Cricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat GamesCricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat Games |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | Reflecting back nearly sixty years later, the secretary of the class of 1855 wrote: "In those days, substantially all the students played football and baseball [MA round ball, probably], while some played cricket and four-old-cat."
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| Sources | "News from the Classes," Harvard Graduates Magazine Volume 18 (1909-1910). Accessed 2/11/10 via Google Books search ("e.h.abbot, sec."). From an death notice of Alexander Agassis, b. 1835 |
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1853c.13 At Harvard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat"
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