Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That intercollegiate matches have a distinct value in stimulating sports, which are the best form of physical exercise in youth, few people would be inclined to deny; but the single, boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames, and the cricket match between those universities, supplemented in each case by a series of intramural contests, has been enough to stimulate unflagging interests in those sports among the students. Judging from the effects of the race at New London, one may ask whether or not the same plan would be sufficient in football. The necessity of maintaining for this purpose...
...give excessive importance to college athletic contests. That intercollegiate matches have a distinct value in stimulating sports, which are the best form of physical exercise in youth, few people would be inclined to deny; but the single boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames, and the cricket match between those universities, supplemented in each case by a series of intramural contests, has been enough to stimulate unflagging interest in those sports among the students. Judging from the effect of the race at New London one may ask whether or not the same plan would be sufficient in football...
...today, however, Captain Patton, left fullback, and Amelia, center halfback, although the other men are halfback, although the other men are experienced-players. The Pennsylvanians have as yet played no intercollegiate games, but two contests, one with Montclari, New Jersey, Athletic Club and the other with the Staten Island Cricket Club, have resulted in losses, 3-2 and 3-1 respectively. This by no means signifies a lack of strength in the Blue and Red, for these two teams are considered the strongest amateur elevens in the East...
...defeating Edmund Levy and Wallace Bates of the University of California in the final doubles match J. Brooks Fenno Jr. '21 and E. W. Feibleman '21 won the Intercollegiate Doubles Championship. The match was played on July 2 at the Merion Cricket Club, at Haverford, Pennsylvania. Just previous to the doubles contest Fenno went down to defeat in the finals of the singles championship at the hands of Philip Neer of Leland Stanford University...
...Saturday, the Crimson netmen will face the Seabright Tennis Club, preparatory to the Intercollegiate matches which are to be played this year at the Merion Cricket Club, at Haverford, Pennsylvania, starting June 27. The University players will leave for Seabright as soon as their examinations are over, in order to get in as much practice as possible before the championship matches. Captain Fenno, Duane, Feibleman and Bradley are the Crimson tennis men who will enter the Intercollegiates...