1842c.9
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Haverford Students Form Cricket Team of Americans
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | CollegeCollege |
| Location | PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia |
| City/State/Country: | [[{{{Country}}}]] |
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| Game | CricketCricket |
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| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | "Haverford College [Haverford PA] students, however, played cricket with English hosiery weavers prior to 1842, the year the students formed the first all-American team."
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| Sources | Lester, John A., A Century of Philadelphia Cricket (U of Penn Press, Philadelphia, 1951), pages 9-11; as cited in Gelber, Steven M., "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917," Journal of Sport History, Vol. 11, number 1 (Spring 1984), page 15. Lester cites "a manuscript diary kept by an unknown student . . . under the date 1834." |
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| Comment | Haverford is about 10 miles NW of downtown Philadelphia. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Iis Lester saying this is the first Haverford all-native team, first US all-native team, or what? Can we resolve the discrepancy between 1834 and 18"before 1842" as the time that the club formed? Edit with form to add a query |
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1842c.9 Haverford Students Form Cricket Team of Americans"
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