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Club Name

Location/Information

Date Formed

Schools, Clubs and Playing Grounds

Acorn

Junior Club

Ajax

Junior Club playing near Camac Woods

c 1870

Albion 15

Cardinton, Deleware Co.

Albion 22

Alert

Frankford

Alfred the Great

All United

Junior Club playing in Camdenen

c 1870

Americus

Anglo-Saxon

Athletic

Junior Club playing at North Broad Street, near Camac Woods

c 1870

Bank Clerks

"Belfield"

William Wistar's residence, Germantown

Belfield

Olney Avenue, Thorp's Lane, Germantown

Belmont

various locations in West Philadelphia

British Americans

Limekiln Pike, Germantown

Camac Woods

Mr. Turner's Estate at Turner's Lane and Sixth St on the Germantown Road

Cambria

Fairhill and Somerset Streets

Camden

Camden, NJ

Centennial

Champion

Junior Club playing at Fair Grounds at Powelton

c 1870

Chelten

Junior Club playing in Germantown

c 1870

Cheltenham

Junior Club in Jenkintown

Cherry Grove

Chester

Chester, PA

Chestnut Hill

Chestnut Hill

Clifton

Clifton Heights

Crescent

Junior Club playing in Camden, NJ

c 1870

Darby

Darby, PA

Delaware Field Club

Wilmington, DE

Delphian

Used Philadelphia CC ground on rental

1857

Duncannon

Organized by John Wistar after the Civil War

Duy's Lane

Germantown CC ground, Winter and Baynton Sts, Germantown

Eagle

Junior Club playing on the Fair Grounds at Powelton

c 1870

Eddystone

Eddystone

Edgemoor

Edward VII

Emerald

Empire

Junior Club playing on the Fair Grounds at Powelton

c 1870

Excelsior

Junior Club playing on the Fair Grounds at Powelton

c 1870

The Fair Grounds

Powelton

Fairhill

Fairmount Park

Cedar Grove Field, West Farimount Park

Fairview

Falls of Schuykill

Falls, Midvail, and Henry Avenues

Fox Chase

Fox Chase

Frankford

Frankford

Galbraith

General Electric

Organized 1929, 30-40 Cope Field, 41Fairmount Park

Germantown C.C.

various locations in Germantown

August 1, 1854

Germantown British Americans

Gibbsboro

Gibbsboro, NJ

Girard

Harrogate

Glenside

Glenside

Griswold

Haddenfield

Haddonfield, NJ

Haverford College

Cope Field, Haverford College

I. D. & M.

Independence

Junior Club playing at North Broad St, near Camac Woods

I Zingari

Jenkintown

Jenkintown

John Bright

K.I.B.A.

Kensington Industrial and Beneficial Assoc., Kensington, Front and Erie

Kensington

Kensington

Kent

Junior Club playing on the Fair Grounds at Powelton

c 1870

Keystone

Played on the Fair Grounds, 1870

c 1857

Landsdowne

Landsdowne

Lawndale

Lenni

Lenni Mills

Lighthouse

Front and Erie

Linden

Camden, NJ

Manayunk

Manayunk

Marylebone

Junior Club playing in Germantown

c 1870

Melrose

Melrose

Merchantville

Merchantville, NJ

Merion

Wynne Wood Estate, Ardmore, Haverford

Merryvale

1891

Millwood

Moorestown

Moorestown, NJ

1892 to present

Modocs

1874 to 1883

Neptune

c 1867

Nicetown

Germantown CC's ground, Pulaski Ave and Township line, Germantown

Norristown

Norristown

North America

Junior Club playing in Germantown

North End

Oakland

Olypian

Junior Club playing at 25th and Jefferson, 1865 used Phila CC, 1870 played on the Fair Grounds at Powelton

Orient

Junior Club playing at the Fair Grounds at Powelton

Oriole

Orpheus

Osciola

Othello

Junior Club playing on the Fair Grounds at Powelton

Overbrook

Overbrook

Oxford

Frankford

P.R.R.

Pennsylvania RR, with grounds at 52nd Street

Peabody

Penn Linden

Camden, NJ

1884

Perseverence

Philadelphia Cricket Club

Camden, NJ, about 3 squares S. of Federal St., near the Delaware River; earlier near St. Martin's Station on the P.R.R.

February 10, 1854

Philadelphia and Reading RR

41st and Baring Sts.

1857

Philadelphia Racquet Club

Philadelphia Wanderers

1887

Phoenixville

Phoenixville

Pilgrams

Organized in Edinburgh

1903

Plymouth

Junior Club playing in Germantown

c 1870

Quaker City

Lansdowne

Radnor

Wayne

Richard Baxter

Ridley Park

Ridley Park

Rittenhouse

Riverton

Riverton, NJ

Robin Hood

Second Street Pike

Rose Hill

West Philadelphia

St. Davids

St. Davids

St. George

Camac Estate Grounds

1859

St. Timothy's

Roxborough

Sherwood

Baltimore Ave, nr. 58th St.

Southwark

Star

Englidh cricketers in Germantown

1854

Star

Junior Club playing in Camden, NJ

c 1870

Stenton Field Club

Young America Grounds. Main St and Logan Mansion, Germantown

Stetson

1884

Tacony

Tacony

Tennyson

Fairmount Park

Tioga

Westmoreland Station

Tulpehocken

Junior Club playing in Germantown

c 1870

Trenton

Trenton, NJ

Union Club

of Englishmen. Played on the grounds of George Tichnor, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, below Fairmount Bridge

1831

Union Club

Univ. of PA students, organized by W.R. Wistar, played in Camden, NJ

1843

United

Junior Club playing in Camden, NJ

c 1870

University Barge Club

Univ of PA

West Philadelphia

Veterans

founded by W.R. Wistar

1901

Victoria

Viscose

Wakefield

Wakefield Mills

in 1841challenged the best team in Philadelphia to play two games for fifty to one hundred dollars

"Walnut Cottage"

Thomas Newhall's residence between Manheim and Hansbury Sts.Germantown

Wanderers

Washington

Junior Club playing in Germantown

c 1870

Waverly

Wayne

Wayne

West Chester

West Chester

West Indians

West Philadelphia

49th and Arch Streets

Wissahickon

Wissahickon

Wootton

Bryn Mawr

Working Men's CC

Germantown

YMCA

Yeadon

York Road

Young America

Stenton

1855 to 1890



Club Name

Information

Date Formed

Clubs without Playing Grounds and generally with Changing Personnel

"Country"

including G. Ashbridge and C.A. Newhall

about 1878

The Foresters

including six of the Hargrave Family

The Gentlemen of Leasure

including G.S. Patterson

The Idlers

The Incapables

The Nondescripts

The Social Arts CC

including A.A. Outerbridge

"Town"

including E. Hopkinson and S. Law

The United Clodhoppers


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