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|Year=1840 | |Year=1840 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Year Number=39 | |||
|Headline=Cricket [or Maybe Wicket] Played by Harvard Class of 1841 | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
| | |Tags=College, | ||
|Country=US | |||
|State=MA | |||
|City=Cambridge | |||
|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
| | |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | ||
|Text=<p>"Games of ball were played almost always separately by the classes, and in my case cricket prevailed. | |Age of Players=Youth | ||
<p>Member of the Class of 1841, "Harvard Athletic Exercises Thirty Years Ago," < | |Text=<p>"Games of ball were played almost always separately by the classes, and in my case cricket prevailed. There were not even matches between classes, so far as I remember, and certainly not between colleges. . . . The game was the same then played by boys on Boston Common, and was very unlike what is now [1879] called cricket. Balls, bats, and wickets were all larger than in the proper English game; the bats especially being much longer, twice as heavy, and three-cornered instead of flat. . . . What game was it? Whence it came? It seemed to bear the same relation to true cricket that the old Massachusetts game of base-ball bore to the present 'New York' game, being less artistic, but more laborious."</p> | ||
<p>Member of the Class of 1841, "Harvard Athletic Exercises Thirty Years Ago," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Harvard Advocate</span> [Cambridge MA], Volume 17, number 9 (June 12, 1879), page 131. Accessed 2/9/10 via Google Books search ("wickets were all larger" "harvard advocate").</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Text | "Games of ball were played almost always separately by the classes, and in my case cricket prevailed. There were not even matches between classes, so far as I remember, and certainly not between colleges. . . . The game was the same then played by boys on Boston Common, and was very unlike what is now [1879] called cricket. Balls, bats, and wickets were all larger than in the proper English game; the bats especially being much longer, twice as heavy, and three-cornered instead of flat. . . . What game was it? Whence it came? It seemed to bear the same relation to true cricket that the old Massachusetts game of base-ball bore to the present 'New York' game, being less artistic, but more laborious." Member of the Class of 1841, "Harvard Athletic Exercises Thirty Years Ago," Harvard Advocate [Cambridge MA], Volume 17, number 9 (June 12, 1879), page 131. Accessed 2/9/10 via Google Books search ("wickets were all larger" "harvard advocate"). |
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