Baseball
- Early history
- Mount Allison
plays ball - Intercollegiate competition
- Declining interest
Declining Interest
In 1904, one year after baseball had been dropped for the season due to renewed interest in cricket, men's baseball fell under the direction of the Mount Allison Amateur Athletic Association, but the sport failed to grow. A dedicated baseball diamond was never built, and teams relied instead on a diamond that was marked out on the Athletic Field.
Interclass games continued to be played at Mount Allison before and, to a lesser extent, during the war years, and the University went on to play against local town teams and St. Joseph's College before WWI. Intercollegiate matches against other institutions, however, never materialized. The Academy, meanwhile, continued to compete against teams from the town during the war.
Ironically, as participation in sports declined during WWI, women's baseball at Mount Allison became more organized. In October 1915, baseball equipment for the women at the Ladies' College had been ordered. Previously, women had been playing with "improvised" balls and bats. In 1918, a game of baseball between the "New Girls" versus the "Old Girls" in October was recorded. Unlike the men, who played baseball in the spring, women played in the autumn.
Mount Allison Male Academy baseball team, 1911
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