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Date: 5/26/2008 - 5/25/2013
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USA Cricket: The cricketer who won the Medal of Honor
Apr 05, 2013
Born in Ireland in 1838, Collis immigrated to the United States when he was fifteen and was soon caught up in the cricket fervor that was sweeping Philadelphia in the late 1850s, a time when the city fairgrounds overflowed every weekend with young Philadelphians playing game after game.
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1893 Australian Tour of USA
Jul 01, 2010
Francis Bohlen scored 118 for Philadelphia in 4 hours. The wicket prepared was perfect and and an enormous crowd was witness to the great match on all days.
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Lord Hawke's English XI - Tours of USA in 1891 and 1894
Feb 06, 2010
Lord Hawke's XI toured around the globe during 1890s - North America (1891), Ceylon/India (1892-93), North America again (1894), South Africa (1895-96), West Indies (1897), and South Africa yet again (1898/1899). North America, more prominently USA, was the only continent he toured twice during that decade!
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USA Cricket History: Tour Report of America's first victorious tour of England in 1884
Sep 14, 2008
In 1881/82, on just the third Australian tour of England, the Aussies defeated England in England! A rare feat. Inspired by that achievement, on May 17th 1884, the fourteen Gentlemen of Philadelphia, or Argonauts as they called themselves, boarded the City of Rome at Sandy Hook embarking on the first ever tour of Ireland and England under the captaincy of Robert Newhall. $8,200 was raised to make this possible (equivalent of some $100,000 today).
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