As you can see from the above picture Cricket was played at the college in 1910 and we won the championship that year. Cricket would be a natural game for English boys to play and since our founder came from England, I am sure cricket followed him here. I did some research and found that Mr. Job of Job Brothers Ltd. also "introduced" cricket to St. John's. It was played in the Pleasantville area where there was a large flat piece of land.
Cricket is no longer played here and that goes back to the early 1900's, after 1910. It seems that the weather was not conducive to playing cricket and games sometimes took a week to finish. In one edition of The Feildian there was a hue and cry when cricket was removed from the college's list of sports and replaced with basketball. Several articles were written saying how could this be allowed to happen; the national game of the mother country cast aside in the oldest colony. Shame! Shame!
But we Feildians did play it and played it well as can be seen from this picture. They are a smart lot!!
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