Victoria Cricket Club
The Victoria Cricket Club was a Uruguayan sports club from Montevideo .
The club, which exclusively served the practice of cricket , was founded in 1842. On October 29, 1842, The Britannia and Montevideo Reporter published a call for a general assembly of members on October 31, 1842 at the Claypoles Hotel. The first evidence of the sporting activities of the club is a message in the newspaper of December 3, 1842, in which the members were asked to appear on the day of sport on December 8, 1842. The name of the club either goes back to Queen Victoria or simply referred to the location of the sports field in Pueblo Victoria .
The sporting activities were carried out outside the city walls. Founding members were many European (especially British) immigrants displaced from Argentina and settling in Montevideo. It is known as the oldest sports club in the country and is the immediate predecessor of the Montevideo Cricket Club, which was founded in 1861 . The Victoria Cricket Club ceased to exist due to the civil war of the Guerra Grande, which ended in 1851 , as it was not possible to leave the city walls to practice sports at this time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ José L. Buzzetti , Eduardo Gutierrez Cortinas : "Historia del Deporte en el Uruguay (1830-1900)", Montevideo 1965, pp. 17f
- ^ "Sport and Society in Uruguay", p.48 by Bernd Schulze
- ↑ Montevideo Cricket Club in history ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
