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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1793
|Year Number=1
|Headline=Engraving Shows Game with Wickets at Dartmouth College
|Headline=Engraving Shows Game with Wickets at Dartmouth College
|Year=1793
|Salience=2
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Tags=College,
|Location=New England
|Location=New Hampshire,
|Game=Cricket
|Game=Cricket
|Tags=College
|Text=<p>A copper engraving showing Dartmouth College appeared in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Massachusetts Magazine</span> in February 1793. It is the earliest known drawing of the College, and shows a wicket-oriented game being played in the yard separating college buildings. College personnel suggest is an early form of cricket, given the tall wicket which is not known for the New England pastime of wicket.</p>
|Text=<p>A copper engraving showing Dartmouth College appeared in <u>Massachusetts Magazine</u> in February 1793. It is the earliest known drawing of the College, and shows a wicket-oriented game being played in the yard separating college buildings. The game appears to be wicket, but College personnel ask whether it is not an early form of cricket. See <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Elibrary/Library_Bulletin/Nov1992/LB-N92-KCramer2.html">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1992/LB-N92-KCramer2.html</a>; </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Submitted by Scott Meacham 8/17/06. Dartmouth is in Hanover NH.</p>
|Sources=<p>See <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Elibrary/Library_Bulletin/Nov1992/LB-N92-KCramer2.html">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1992/LB-N92-KCramer2.html</a>;</p>
|Submitted by=John Thorn, August 2006.
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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A copper engraving showing Dartmouth College appeared in Massachusetts Magazine in February 1793. It is the earliest known drawing of the College, and shows a wicket-oriented game being played in the yard separating college buildings. College personnel suggest is an early form of cricket, given the tall wicket which is not known for the New England pastime of wicket.

 

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See http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1992/LB-N92-KCramer2.html;

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