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Wicket Ball in Amherst MA
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Text | "For exercise the students played wicket ball and shinny." The author here appears to be referring to the two sons of Edward Hitchcock, President of Amherst College from 1844 to 1854. Alice M. Walker, Historic Homes of Amherst (Amherst Historical Society, Amherst MA, 1905), page 99. Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search (walker "historic homes"). Amherst MA is about 25 miles north of Springfield. |
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1850c. Wicket Ball in Amherst MA"
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