Game Glossary Term Edit: 1772.1

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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1772 |Year Suffix= |Year Number=1 |Headline=Irish soldiers play Hurling in NYC |Salience=2 |Location= |Country=United States |Coordinates=40.7127753, -74.0059728 |State=NY |City=New York |Modern Address= |Game=Hurling |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Unknown |Holiday= |Notables= |Text=<div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block"> <div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">"If the Hurling Classic is new to New York City, the game certainly is not. Hurling was recorded as far back as 1772, brought by Irish soldiers in the British Army. There was even an early form of "Ice Hurling" played on Collect Pond, where Chinatown is now located.</p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86" data-component="text-block"> <div class="ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">As the Irish poured into America in the wake of the famine, the sport became an important part of Irish-American life. New York's Irish Hurling and Football Club was established in 1857, and clubs were soon set up from Boston to San Francisco."</p> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">A Hurling Club was established in San Francisco in 1853. See Redmond, p. 288.</p> </div> </div> |Sources=<p>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50395910</p> <p>See also Redmond, "The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920"</p> |Warning= |Comment= |Query= |Source Image= |External Number= |Submitted by=Bruce Allardice |Submission Note= |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No }}

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