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Collegiate Game [the First Played by NY Rules?] in NYC

Salience Noteworthy
Tags College
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, US
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
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Students at St. John's College [now Fordham College] 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 were called the Rose Hill BBC (Fordham) and the Social BBC (St. Xavier's College).

 

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 showing a 33-11 victory for St. John's.

Warning

It is not clear whether this qualifies as the first intercollegiate game by modern rules.

Comment

The St. Francis Xavier's College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913.

Brian McKenna, on 11/8/2015, reports that St. Francis was a college preparatory high school, and suggests that the St. John's side used high school players too.  

 

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Submitted by Brian McKenna
Submission Note Supplemental information, received 11/8/2014



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