Cricket
- Origins in Canada
- New sport on campus
- Height of popularity
- Demise
Height of popularity
Cricket attained its highest level of popularity at Mount Allison in 1885, when the 11 players on the University team defeated two town teams, the Mechanics and Tantramar, in games that attracted large crowds. Of the match against the Mechanics, The Argosy (November 1885) noted that the Mechanics' team members had challenged Mount Allison to the match, and that they had been practicing hard and did not expect to lose. The inaugural Mount Allison Ladies’ Academy Club cricket team also formed that year, but there is no record extant of the club’s games.
Following the successes of 1885, cricket faded quickly on campus in favour of baseball and rugby football. There are no indications that cricket was played by members of the Mount Allison community in the 1890s, although it did resurface briefly in 1903 when baseball was dropped during that season due to lack of practice time. Ten years later, cricket had vanished entirely from Mount Allison and from Sackville as a whole.
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