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Game of Base Mentioned in Account of Life at Harvard

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-modern Rules
City/State/Country: Cambridge, MA, United States
Game Cricket, Base, Foot ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
Text

 The Harvard Register, Feb. 1828; from an article entitled “Life in College.”

"There are some other features of college life we fain would sketch but our pen confesses its weakness in the attempt. Would we could call upon the Engine to give out a history of the

 exertions of those who managed it in days of yore; or that we could contrive to make the Delta yield up a narrative of the sports it has witnessed. It could tell , before it took its 

present gallows appearance, of Cricket - Base - and Foot ball; it could tell how many pedal members began the game with white, unspotted skins, but limped off at its conclusion 

tinged with variegated hues.”

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The Harvard Register, Feb. 1828; from an article entitled “Life in College.”

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"Pedal members"? A pretty good Harvard friend of Protoball can't explain this term.

"Delta"?  

 

 

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Submitted by David Block
Submission Note Email of 6/1/2021.



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