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|Name=Yale Class of 1861 Club of New Haven
|Club Name=Yale Class of 1861
|Type of Date=Day
|Date=1859/10/29
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Country=United States
|State=CT
|City=New Haven
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<p>Yale (junior class) 47</p>
<p>&ldquo;62&rdquo; (sophomore class) 25</p>
<p>(WSOT: &ldquo;The honor of introducing this manly game into the number of college sports at Yale, belongs to the Junior Class.&nbsp; At the beginning of the present term, a Club numbering twenty-five members was organized in this class under the name of the Yale Base Ball Club.&nbsp; Soon after, this example was followed in the organization of the &ldquo;62&rdquo; Base Ball Club, by the Sophomore Class.&nbsp; A challenge sent by the first nine of the latter Club to the first nine of the former was accepted.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;WSOT 11-5-59</p>
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<p>Item A. "Base ball clubs were started in College a little over a year ago, and during all last fall the game was played, by the Sophomore and Junior classes, with a perfect vengeance. With the former, every afternoon, week in and week out, from the beginning of the first term, down to Thanksgiving, used to find the ball-ground pretty plentifully sprinkled with players and students, till about five minutes to four, when, suddenly, the field would be vacant."</p>
<p><br /> Item B. "The honor of starting the first Base-Ball Club at Yale belongs to a member of Sixty-one &ndash; the member from Chittenango [NY]. During the first year (Junior) of the existence of the Club, the game was practiced with zeal and success &ndash; almost to the exclusion of boating. The subsequent year brought less favor. Fifty-two of the Class attached themselves to the first Base-Ball Club."</p>
|Sources=<p>WSOT Nov. 5, 1859</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Craig Waff, 
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Is No Later Than=Yes
|First Newspaper Mention=1860/01/01
|First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
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