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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1787 | |||
|Year Number=1 | |||
|Headline=Ballplaying Prohibited at Princeton - Shinny or Early Base Ball? | |Headline=Ballplaying Prohibited at Princeton - Shinny or Early Base Ball? | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Bans,College | |Tags=Bans, College, Pre-Knicks NYC, | ||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Youth | |||
|Text=<p>"It appearing that a play at present much practiced by the smaller boys . . . with balls and sticks," the faculty of Princeton University prohibits such play on account of its being dangerous as well as "low and unbecoming gentlemen students."</p> | |Text=<p>"It appearing that a play at present much practiced by the smaller boys . . . with balls and sticks," the faculty of Princeton University prohibits such play on account of its being dangerous as well as "low and unbecoming gentlemen students."</p> | ||
<p>Quoted without apparent reference in Henderson, pp. 136-7. | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Quoted without apparent reference in Henderson, pp. 136-7. Sullivan, on 7/29/2005, cited Warnum L. Collins, "Princeton," page 208, per Harold Seymour's dissertation.</p> | |||
<p>Wallace quotes the faculty minute [November 26, 1787] in George R. Wallace, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Princeton Sketches: The Story of Nassau</span> Hall (Putnam's Sons, New York, 1894), page 77, but he does not cite Collins. The Wallace book was accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Book search for "'princeton sketches.'" The college is in Princeton NJ.</p> | |||
|Warning=<p><strong>Caveat:</strong> Collins - and Wallace -believed that the proscribed game was shinny, and Altherr makes the same judgment - see Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 35-36.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p><strong>Note</strong><strong>: </strong>Princeton was known as the College of New Jersey until 1896.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Can we determine why this "shiny" inference was made?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Tags | Bans, College, Pre-Knicks NYCBans, College, Pre-Knicks NYC |
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| Text | "It appearing that a play at present much practiced by the smaller boys . . . with balls and sticks," the faculty of Princeton University prohibits such play on account of its being dangerous as well as "low and unbecoming gentlemen students."
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| Sources | Quoted without apparent reference in Henderson, pp. 136-7. Sullivan, on 7/29/2005, cited Warnum L. Collins, "Princeton," page 208, per Harold Seymour's dissertation. Wallace quotes the faculty minute [November 26, 1787] in George R. Wallace, Princeton Sketches: The Story of Nassau Hall (Putnam's Sons, New York, 1894), page 77, but he does not cite Collins. The Wallace book was accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Book search for "'princeton sketches.'" The college is in Princeton NJ. |
| Warning | Caveat: Collins - and Wallace -believed that the proscribed game was shinny, and Altherr makes the same judgment - see Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 35-36. |
| Comment | Note: Princeton was known as the College of New Jersey until 1896. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Can we determine why this "shiny" inference was made? Edit with form to add a query |
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