Mount Allison, History of Sports, Sports

Sports

Baseball: Baseball enjoys the distinction of being Mount Allison's first sport to be played competitively at the varsity level.

Men's basketball: Mount Allison men started playing basketball eight years after female students hit the court in 1901.

Women's basketball: This was the first competitive sport to be played by women at Mount Allison against an outside team.

Cricket: When cricket arrived at Mount Allison in the late 1860s, nearby villages and towns became the school's main opponents.

Cycling: The importance of cycling at Mount Allison rests on the cultural shift it paved for women’s sports.

Men's gymnastics: Find out how an apple was split in two on an undergraduate's neck at the annual gymnastics exhibition!

Women's gymnastics: Mount Allison was among the first private schools to offer curricular physical education for females.

Handball: This was the only sport to be played continuously by students at Mount Allison during the school's first 60 years.

Men's hockey: Men's hockey at Mount Allison was born with the construction of a skating rink on Weldon Street in 1896.

Women's hockey: Hockey joined basketball as the first two competitive team sports to be played by women at Mt. A.

Hurley: Considered a precursor to hockey, hurley was played througout the year as a recreational activity.

Lacrosse: Lacrosse was Mount Allison's fourth sport when it was introduced in 1886, but it disappeared two years later.

Rugby football: No other sport garnered as much attention or generated as much school spirit in the years leading up to WWI.

Tennis: At the height of its popularity in 1914, eight tennis courts were spread across Mount Allison's campus.

Track and field: Track and field became the third sport to be played regularly by men at the varsity level.

Winter activities: Students enjoyed pond skating, tobogganing, snowshoeing, skating carnivals and skating parties in winter.

Mount Allison Academy baseball team, 1916-17

Mount Allison Ladies' College physical culture drill, ca. 1910

Mount Allison [Ladies' College and University?] hockey team, 1902-03

Mount Allison Academy and 2nd University rugby football teams, 1894-95