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Ball-playing Prohibited Near UNC Buildings
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Bans, CollegeBans, College |
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City/State/Country: | Raleigh, NC, United States |
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Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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Text | "There shall be no ball playing in or among the College buildings or against the walls. All athletic exercises must be kept at a distance, so as to prevent damage to the buildings and interruption to study." |
Sources | Acts of the General Assembly and Ordinances of the Trustees for the Organization and Government of the University of North Carolina (Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Institution for the Dumb and the Blind, 1852), page 21. Per Originals, volume 5, number 5 (May 2012), page 2b |
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Comment | Tom Altherr suggests that "The ordinance certainly prohibited handball games, such as fives, but it could have as easily targeted base ball-type games." This same rule appears in the printed 1829 rules for UNC. [ba] Edit with form to add a comment |
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Submitted by | Tom Altherr |
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