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<p><strong>Caveat:</strong> This game was very unlikely to have followed modern rules. Writing of it later, participants termed the game "round ball," and a writer in 1917 called it "rounders."</p> | <p><strong>Caveat:</strong> This game was very unlikely to have followed modern rules. Writing of it later, participants termed the game "round ball," and a writer in 1917 called it "rounders."</p> | ||
<p><strong>Query: </strong>Are we persuaded that the two institutions were separately administered?</p> | <p><strong>Query: </strong>Are we persuaded that the two institutions were separately administered?</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Recollections by William Hardy, Phillips Class of 1853, cited in Fred H. Harrison, Chapter 2, "The Hard-Ball Game, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Athletics for All</span> (Phillips Academy, 1983). Harrison does not give a source for the Hardy quote, apparently.</p> | |Sources=<p>Recollections by William Hardy, Phillips Class of 1853, cited in Fred H. Harrison, Chapter 2, "The Hard-Ball Game," in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Athletics for All</span> (Phillips Academy, 1983). Harrison does not give a source for the Hardy quote, apparently.</p> | ||
<p>Recollections of Andover student William Mowry, cited in C. M. Fuess, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy, Andover </span> (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), pp. 449-450.</p> | <p>Recollections of Andover student William Mowry, cited in C. M. Fuess, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy, Andover </span> (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), pp. 449-450.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 16:07, 24 February 2013
| Date | Circa 1853 Date not recorded |
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| Location | Andover, MA, United States |
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| Description | The Phillips Academy, in Andover MA, is reported to have played a game against the Andover Theological Seminary in 1853. A Phillips student named Hardy reportedly wrote: "The Theologues were not too dignified in those days to play matches with the academy." Caveat: This game was very unlikely to have followed modern rules. Writing of it later, participants termed the game "round ball," and a writer in 1917 called it "rounders." Query: Are we persuaded that the two institutions were separately administered? |
| Sources | Recollections by William Hardy, Phillips Class of 1853, cited in Fred H. Harrison, Chapter 2, "The Hard-Ball Game," in Athletics for All (Phillips Academy, 1983). Harrison does not give a source for the Hardy quote, apparently. Recollections of Andover student William Mowry, cited in C. M. Fuess, An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy, Andover (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), pp. 449-450. |
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