Word: cricketers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autumn the two fifteens met again, this time on famous and fashionable old St. George's Cricket Ground in Hoboken, New Jersey. In this second encounter, Princeton won. In 1878, back Princeton came and met Harvard on Boston Common, Princeton again winning. The following year, 1879, Harvard again journeyed to Hoboken and again suffered defeat. During these three years the famous "fifteen" of Rugby tradition had been reduced to "eleven," and the basic line of cleavage established which in time was to produce a distinctive American game...
Pink of cheek, blue of eye, modest of demeanor, he stood upon the 10th green of the Merion Cricket Club's West course at Ardmore, Pa., and received the cheers of 5,000 or more galleryites, the handshake of George Von Elm, youthful Los Angelist, whom he had defeated 10 and 8* in a ruthless final...
...Ardmore, Pa., 166 able performers flocked forth upon the sward of the Merion Cricket Club course for the banner event of U. S. golf?the national amateur championship. There were 17 British subjects, four Canadians, the champion of Panama. Out came balls, off sailed drives, in came qualifying scores...
...Jones '24, playing brilliant golf, defeated Francis Ouimet yesterday 11 up and 10 to play, and won his way to the finals of the National Amateur Golf Championship now being played on the links of the Merion Cricket Club, at Ardmore...
Coach Cowles said yesterday fast all men who expect to come out for the tennis team in the spring should enter this tournament as its results will affect his choice of the squad of men who will practice on the indoor court at Long wood Cricket Club during the early part of the spring...