Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first intercollegiate cricket match of the season was played last Saturday on the fine grounds of the Philadelphia Cricket club. Harvard was defeated in an innings, but a defeat at the hands of a team which includes four men who are to represent Philadelphia in England this year, is no disgrace, and the practice obtained by playing against Pennsylvania's strong bowlers will be an invaluable preparation for the game against Haverford next week, when we may hope for better success...
...cricket eleven will leave Cambridge quarter of eleven o'clock this morning for Philadelphia, where they play the eleven of the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. The team takes with it the best wishes of the college for success...
...cricket team leaves today for its first championship match, not, to be sure, with the brightest prospect of success. Harvard can scarcely hope to defeat an eleven containing five or six of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia team which is to visit England next summer; but the college will expect a good showing even against these odds. The eleven has been improving lately, and with sharp fielding and steady work ought at least to keep down the runs. Cricket has taken a good start this year, and more interest has been shown in it than in former years. The eleven ought...
CRICKET CLUB.- The following men will meet at my room at 10.45 sharp, ready to start for Philadelphia: Austrian, Balch, Butters, Crowninshield, Frost, Garrett, Lee, Hewes, Nields, Sullivan...
George W. Childs of Philadelphia has offered fifty dollars as a prize for the best entrance examination to Princeton...