Sports

Cricket

-mostly associated with the US

National Cricket League

-formed in 1914 by unifying various leagues

Teams

Northeast Division

1. Boston Whigs

2. Philadelphia Patriots

3. Montreal Shamrocks

4. Halifax Sailors

New York Division

1. Manhattan Knickerbockers

2. Brooklyn Kings

3. Yonkers Guards

4. Black Rock Navvies

5. Rochester Lions

Middle West Division

1. Chicago Keystones

2. Pittsburgh Columns

4. Miami Mauvecoats

5. Toronto Greenshirts

6. St. Paul Pines

South Middle West Division

1. St. Louis Phoenixes

2. Cincinnati Eagles

3. Louisville Redlegs

4. Lexington Raccoons

Interior, Olympia, and Columbia Division

1. Websteropolis Boosways

2. Cherisia Miners

3. Selkirk Thistles

4. Port Townsend Freebooters

5. Bentinck Miners

Middle Coast Division

1. Washington Senators

2. Richmond Cardinals

3. Norfolk Tides

4. Wilmington Storms

Southeast Division

1. Charleston Oaks

2. Fernandina Castles

3. Persitia Uniteds

4. Chattanooga Turbines

Southwest Division

1. New Orleans Creoles

2. Segovia Oilers

3. Pensacola Flames

4. Memphis Mamelukes

5. Lille Giants

West Buenaventura Division

1. San Francisco Expos

2. Peralta Rumblers

3. San Diego Silvers

4. Guaymas Pescadores

5. Culiacan Aztecs

East Buenaventura Division

1. San Patricio Fenians

2. Matamoros Comuneros

3. Monterrey Hierros

4. Tampico Benzenes

5. Broderick Vaqueros

Football

Lyceum football

-known as "leecy"


-originated from British lyceum movement in late 1830s spearheaded by Richard Cobden

-to attract working class with amusement to adult education

-took mob football, added rules to make safer, added fields

-something like rugby, broadly speaking

Masonic football

-known as "football" in most countries, or "macey" where other such footballs are dominant


-attempt to stem violence by restricting it to foot game

-led by Freemasons who standardized it

Gymnastics

-prominent in the US thanks to German influence

-with Turnvereins being prominent across the US to such an extent that gymnastics is often known as "turning"

Handball

Ice sports

Rinkball

-also known as "hurling on ice"

-originated as adaptation in Laurentia and Canada of hurling to the ice

-no carrying balls on sticks as a result

-with first "true" rinkball game being between the University of Toronto and McGill in 1866

Boreal Rinkball Association

Teams

1. Montreal Harps

2. Toronto Hibernians

3. Kingston Royals

4. Ancaster

5. Halifax

6. St. John's Paddies

7. Selkirk

8. Black Rock

9. St. Paul

10. Miami

11. Portland

12. Millewackie

13. Concord

14. Sandusky

15. Boston

16. Sumnerville

17. Brooklyn

18. Pittsburgh

19. St. Louis

20. Rochester

21. Philadelphia

22. Port Townsend

23. St. Genevieve

24. Cincinnati

25. San Francisco

26. Segovia

27. Pensacola

28. Monterrey

Hockey-on-ice

-also known as bandy

-game originating, standardized in Britain