Word: cricketers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard cricket eleven defeated Haverford in the first championship game at the Haverford College grounds near Philadelphia yesterday by a score of 164 to 70. The game was played on the American plan, each eleven completing one inning and losing six wickets in the second inning. The victory was a decisive one for Harvard, and several of her players rolled up heavy scores. The best individual scores were made by Brown, who batted for 35 runs. Garrett 26, MacVeagh 23, Balch 17, and Hewes...
...cricket eleven have opened their series of championship matches with a decisive victory over Haverford. They deserve hearty congratulations, not only for starting the season so ausspiciously, but for breaking the long series of defeats which in past years has clouded the reputation of cricket at Harvard as an intercollegiate sport. Since the cricketers of Haverford proved not invincible, Harvard may look forward to her second championship match with increased confidence, and hope to alter the record of previous years against the University of Pennsylvania. If Harvard should be compelled to withdraw from the intercollegiate cricket league next year...
...cricket team which will represent the University of pennsylvania in the game against Harvard on June 11 is considered by the former college exceptionally strong. Eight members of last year's Penn. team are still in college; two players from Haverford have entered this year and there are four or five new men who are excellent players candidates for the eleventh place. All the men have had experience, and most of them have played on the best teams in the country; two of them, Patterson and Tompson, were on the American team which went to England last year...
Columbia College has just joined the Intercollegiate Cricket Association, which shows that the interest in cricket is spreading. At Pennsylvania a series of games between the four classes is now being played, in which there is great interest taken throughout the college...
...CRICKET ELEVEN.- The following men will meet at 35 Matthews today at 5 p. m. to go to Philadelphia: Garrett, Balch, Sullivan, Frost, Parker, Crowninshield, Hewes, Skinner, MacVeagh, Cherr...