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|Headline= | |Headline=Intercollegiate Game [the First Played by NY Rules] Pits Xavier and Fordham | ||
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|State=NY | |State=NY | ||
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|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
|Age of Players=Youth | |Age of Players=Youth | ||
|Text=<p>Fordham College | |Text=<p>Fordham College students played a game against St. Francis Xavier's College on Nov. 3, 1859, using the new Association rules. The teams apparently were not regarded as representing their schools, but were base ball clubs formed from among students, and called the Rose Hill BBC (Fordham) and the Social BBC (St. Xavier's College).</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source.</p> | |Sources=<p>Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source.</p> | ||
<p><em>New York Sunday Mercury, </em>Nov. 13, 1859, p. 3, carried the result and a box score.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>The St. Francis Xavier's College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>The Xavier College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913.</p> | <p> </p> | ||
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| Text | Fordham College students played a game against St. Francis Xavier's College on Nov. 3, 1859, using the new Association rules. The teams apparently were not regarded as representing their schools, but were base ball clubs formed from among students, and called the Rose Hill BBC (Fordham) and the Social BBC (St. Xavier's College).
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| Sources | Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source. New York Sunday Mercury, Nov. 13, 1859, p. 3, carried the result and a box score. |
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