Cricket

Cricket made its first appearance at Princeton in 1857 and, despite the Nassau Lit's prediction that ``the college authorities would stop it, as there was something wicket in it,'' it has been played here sporadically ever since. The Nassau Cricket Club played several outside matches in the 1860s and 70s. In this century, cricket has been played at the Graduate College chiefly by graduate students from the British Commonwealth in intramural matches, although teams played occasional games with other colleges in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the mid-seventies, both undergraduate and graduate members of a revived cricket club competed in the newly formed Eastern Seaboard Cricket Conference.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).