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|Headline=Cricket Played in Georgia Town Square | |Headline=Cricket Played in Georgia Town Square | ||
|Year=1737 | |Year=1737 | ||
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|Text=<p>Georgia planter William Stephens: "Many of our Townsmen, Freeholders, Inmates, and Servants were assembled in the principal Square, at Cricket and divers other athletick Sports."</p> | |Text=<p>Georgia planter William Stephens: "Many of our Townsmen, Freeholders, Inmates, and Servants were assembled in the principal Square, at Cricket and divers other athletick Sports."</p> | ||
<p><i>A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia</i>, II, page 217, as cited in Lester, ed., <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> [U Penn, 1951], page 4. Lester cites this account as the first mention of American cricket.</p> | <p><i>A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia</i>, II, page 217, as cited in Lester, ed., <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> [U Penn, 1951], page 4. Lester cites this account as the first mention of American cricket.</p> | ||
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| Text | Georgia planter William Stephens: "Many of our Townsmen, Freeholders, Inmates, and Servants were assembled in the principal Square, at Cricket and divers other athletick Sports." A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, II, page 217, as cited in Lester, ed., A Century of Philadelphia Cricket [U Penn, 1951], page 4. Lester cites this account as the first mention of American cricket. |
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