Teams from the army garrison in 1865

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Date of Game 1865
Location Galveston, TX, United States
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Jesse Ziegler, Wave of the Gulf (San Antonio, 1938), p. 183 mentions a game played there in 1865, under the New York rules, between a “crack team of the different [federal army] regiments stationed there” This may have been the first actual game played in TX under the NY rules.

Sources

Jesse Ziegler, Wave of the Gulf (San Antonio, 1938), p. 183

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First in Location Galveston, TX
Players Locality Non-local
Entry Origin Sabrpedia



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