https://protoball.org/index.php?title=Intercollegiate_Game,_Possibly_the_First_Played_by_New_York_Rules&feed=atom&action=historyIntercollegiate Game, Possibly the First Played by New York Rules - Revision history2024-03-28T22:55:04ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.5https://protoball.org/index.php?title=Intercollegiate_Game,_Possibly_the_First_Played_by_New_York_Rules&diff=66486&oldid=prevRjtholkes: Created page with "{{Other First |Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.00594130000002 |Name=Intercollegiate Game, Possibly the First Played by New York Rules |Type of Date=Day |Date=1859/11/03 |Country=U..."2015-03-21T21:29:11Z<p>Created page with "{{Other First |Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.00594130000002 |Name=Intercollegiate Game, Possibly the First Played by New York Rules |Type of Date=Day |Date=1859/11/03 |Country=U..."</p>
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|Name=Intercollegiate Game, Possibly the First Played by New York Rules<br />
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|Date=1859/11/03<br />
|Country=United States<br />
|State=NY<br />
|City=NYC<br />
|Description=<p><span>Students at St. John's College [now Fordham College]&nbsp;played a game against St. Francis Xavier's College on Nov. 3, 1859, using the new Association rules.&nbsp;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).</span></p><br />
<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><br />
<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><br />
<p>Brian McKenna, on 11/8/2014, reports that St. Francis was a college preparatory high school, and suggests that the St. John's side used high school players&nbsp;too. &nbsp;</p><br />
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|Sources=<p>Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor,&nbsp;<span>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span>&nbsp;[University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source.</p><br />
<p><em>New York Sunday Mercury,&nbsp;</em>Nov. 13, 1859, p. 3, carried the result and a box score showing a 33-11 victory for St. John's.</p><br />
|Has Source On Hand=No<br />
|Submitted by=Brian McKenna<br />
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