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Collegiate Game [the First Played by NY Rules?] in NYC
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | CollegeCollege |
| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | NYC, NY, US |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | Students at St. John's College [now Fordham College] played a game against St. Francis Xavier's College on Nov. 3, 1859, using the new Association rules. The teams apparently were not regarded as representing their schools, but were base ball clubs formed from among students, and were called the Rose Hill BBC (Fordham) and the Social BBC (St. Xavier's College).
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| Sources | Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source. New York Sunday Mercury, Nov. 13, 1859, p. 3, carried the result and a box score showing a 33-11 victory for St. John's. |
| Warning | It is not clear whether this qualifies as the first intercollegiate game by modern rules. |
| Comment | The St. Francis Xavier's College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913. Brian McKenna, on 11/8/2015, reports that St. Francis was a college preparatory high school, and suggests that the St. John's side used high school players too. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Brian McKenna |
| Submission Note | Supplemental information, received 11/8/2014 |
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1859.2 Collegiate Game [the First Played by NY Rules?] in NYC"
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