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Early Town-Gown Sports
Handball and hurley were the first competitive sports played on Mount Allison's campus. Students, teachers, and even the first principal of the Male Academy, Humphrey Pickard, participated in the games. By the late 1860s, Academy students also played baseball and cricket, which were relatively more organized. In 1869, the Academy participated in Mount Allison's first recorded match with an outside team, against the Sackville Cricket Club.
Cricket appears to have been the only sport that students at Mount Allison and inhabitants of Sackville played simultaneously before the 1890s. While Mount Allison students developed and competed in other team sports such as rugby football and baseball, local residents engaged in individual pastimes such as shooting, boat racing and horse racing. It was not until a baseball match was held in 1894 that Mount Allison and Sackville met again in sports competition. Two years later, the two sides competed with each other in hockey.
Rev. Humphrey Pickard, ca. 1850s
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