Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game with Princeton was played last Saturday on the St. George's Cricket Grounds at Hoboken. The weather was admirable, with the exception of a strong wind, blowing lengthwise of the field, from the south. Game was called soon after three o'clock. Princeton won the toss, and took the south side, in order to get the advantage of the wind. Warren kicked off for Harvard, and the ball was soon forced near to Harvard's goal. Harvard was then obliged to touch down several times, for safety. The two Cushings, and Morse, of Harvard, and McNair, of Princeton, made...
ALTHOUGH the weather in Montreal was chilly, a large audience assembled on the Cricket Grounds, Saturday, to witness the return-game between the Britannias and the Harvards. The first game played by Harvard against the Canadians was in 1874, when the McGill team, under Mr. David Rodger's captaincy, was beaten by us in Boston. In the autumn of 1875 a Montreal club met with a similar fate. In the spring of 1876 an exceptionally strong team from "All Canada" was defeated on Jarvis Field, and again, in the following autumn, at Montreal. It was during this game that Harvard...
...days' cricket match, the Philadelphians, mainly through the very effective bowling of Messrs. Dan and Charles Newhall, succeeded in beating the visiting Irish team in one innings, the score being...
...Malvernian comes to us filled with reports of lawn tennis and cricket matches. English boys are evidently not losing their interest in field sports. The literary department of the Malvernian is small but good, and the appearance of the paper is exceedingly neat...
...ENGLISH CRICKETERS COMING.- Arrangements are in hand for the visit of three English cricket teams to this country during the present year. The first to come will be Lord Harris's twelve, now playing in Australia. This team will leave that country in April, and will arrive at San Francisco in May, and from that time until the last of June will play through the States and Canada. Its games with the New York and Philadelphia clubs promise to be very interesting. The team plays an American eleven in Philadelphia about the 15th of June. The next team to visit...